We live in an age where almost everything can be fabricated — images, voices, memories, identities.

Yet a rusted nail cannot pretend to be new. A worn key cannot fake the years it has endured.

I work with authentic objects because they carry a history no algorithm can invent.

My role is not to create that history, but to reveal it.

Viktor Karpenko is a contemporary conceptual artist whose practice is rooted in authentic everyday objects. Rather than creating representations, he works with objects that already carry history, time and physical memory. Rust, wear and imperfection are not visual effects but evidence of real existence.

Through minimal interventions, these ordinary materials become reflections on faith, identity, violence, love, memory and the human condition. Each artwork is unique, documented in a permanent archive and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Based in Spain, Karpenko develops long-term conceptual series in which every object becomes part of a larger philosophical archive rather than an isolated artwork.

Every artwork is documented in a permanent archive and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Contacts

v.karpenko@viktorkarpenko.com

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