Although barely out of University, Alexander Ouchtomskys’ interest in manipulating images and materials has drawn considerable attention.
This premature ‘retrospective’ aims to show the development of ideas in relation to the 3 dimensional practice of this emerging artist.

Assemblages of re-used components of synthetic consumer objects and of natural materials proceed via an ‘instinctual’ selection and manipulation process.
Thus the creatures created by this methodology propose an ‘instinctual selection'  as  alternative to  ‘natural selection’, synthetic beings as alternative to biological existence. 

Medical interventions, that attest to the fact that such a process has well and truly begun no longer astonish.
Whilst these are prototype beings, without assigned functionality, the label ‘human’ - as arbitrary as all labels - is drawn into question, in fact appears irrelevant.

What further existence formats and possibilities does the future promise?
If the existence we know is that of Darwinian predictability,  governed by laws of  ‘natural selection‘ the proposed alternative model, based on ‘instinctual selection’ proposes an ‘instinctual existence’, an unpredictable reality governed by chance and chaos.
Uncertainty - as Douglas Adams explained so eloquently long time ago – offers a wide-open Pandoras' box of possibilities.

Alexander Ouchtomsky and his contemporaries are certainly un-phased.

“Having finished primary school after postmodernism was declared dead and turning their backs on the catwalk cool and empty stares of relational aesthetics, the artists (of an exhibition titled Leper/ Messiah) are bare- knuckle building new icons for tomorrow's deities."

  1) Quoted from 3 person show -Leper/ Messiah A2

Karin Neumann-Murphy, curator 'create art'

The Sustainable Living Festival

Awards / Prizes 
2005 Top Screen  2004 Bond University Film and Television Award, Best Film - Other Category.  2005 ATOM Awards finalist, Best Secondary Music Video.  2007 Short Listed for Siemens RMIT Fine Art Scholarship.