Season 3, Episode 1 57 min

Artem Humilevskyi: Sex, Drugs, or Self-Irony

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The guest of this episode is Artem Humilevskyi, a photographer and artist whose practice combines embodiment, vulnerability, and technology. In this conversation, he speaks about his journey in photography—from his first steps in art to international recognition—how he navigates public visibility, criticism, and hate, and why pressing “publish” can sometimes be harder than creating the work itself.

We discuss the series that brought him recognition, his new project Scars—algorithmic art that responds to air raid alerts in Ukraine—as well as the responsibility of the artist during wartime, collaboration with gallerists and the market, the ethics of working with trauma, and teaching as a way to share experience and support the community.

This episode is about the courage to be vulnerable, about ambition and hard work, about innovation shaped by the reality of war, and about Ukrainian art that speaks to the world while remaining deeply rooted in its own ground.

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