Cover image of "In(visible) City" by Tetiana Kononenko (Tanta), a Exhibitions, based in Sumy, created in 30.01.2025

"In(visible) City"

Sumy 2021

This city can be seen every day, but not noticed.

It consists of shadows, reflections, and silence, of presence that seems like absence. Its inhabitants are people who exist in the gaps between hurry, advertisements, and expectations. This city is about loneliness in the crowd, about life on the edge of attention, about those who disappear in space, although their stories sound louder than it seems.

This series is an attempt to stop and look closer. Because it is worth changing the perspective - and the invisible becomes visible.


Curator: Hanna Shvyndina

Project "(In)visible City" is an attempt to capture what often remains unnoticed in everyday life, hidden in the shadows of urban routines. Through the camera lens, I aimed to convey the heavy states in which we occasionally find ourselves or even live, unable to always share them with others. Reflections in puddles, distorted images in glass - these are symbols of how reality can become alien, difficult, and blurred.

Loneliness, invisibility in a crowd, disability, poverty, bullying, old age - these themes become parts of the urban landscape, and though they are hard to see, they surround us every day. People living in these states often remain unnoticed, hidden from view, but their images are reflected in puddles, glass, creating new, distorted realities.

This project is an attempt to draw attention to what remains in the shadows, to what we often do not want or cannot see, to the people who become part of the city but remain invisible to others. Reflections in puddles and glass are like symbols of the fact that what is important and painful is not always visible, but is part of our world.


Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/coLrkqFVv7A