ABOUT
Daevinci is a visual artist who constructs hyper-real scenes through the recomposition of photographed fragments. He approaches photography not as a means of capturing moments, but as a way of building them.
He envisions new realities and, in order to express them, explores and photographs fragments of the existing world. Captured across different times and locations, these elements are meticulously assembled into a single, cohesive scene.
What he defines as Edit Sculpture is a process of treating reality as material — deconstructing and reorganizing it. The final image has never existed as one moment, yet every element within it once physically existed.
Rather than asking whether an image is real or not, he questions whether the reality he imagines can be believed by the viewer. At the boundary between reality and the surreal, the constructed scene begins to function as reality the moment it is accepted.
WORK PROCESS
Daevinci builds his images from fragments of reality.
Each work begins with a scene he imagines as plausible within the logic of the real world. Rather than documenting a moment, he constructs one. To materialize this vision, he searches for and photographs each element individually — locations, objects, light, atmosphere — across different times and spaces.
He places strong emphasis on physical realism. Light, perspective, scale, and spatial coherence must align before the image can exist as a believable moment. For this reason, he revisits locations repeatedly, refining conditions until they support the constructed vision. Every fragment is captured intentionally, and no element is incidental.
The process does not rely on computer-generated imagery, stock material, or illustrated components. All visual elements originate from his own photographs. The final image is assembled through structural editing, where independent fragments are reconstructed into a single cohesive reality.
Daevinci oversees every stage of production himself — from concept and field research to photography and post-production — maintaining complete control over the integrity of the work. The strength of the final image is inseparable from the clarity of the idea and the precision of each captured fragment.
Because each work requires extensive research, repeated location visits, and meticulous assembly, the process is time-intensive. The result is not an altered photograph, but a constructed moment — a reality built from reality.