Urban project by Vita Bujvid
Project is primarily made for citizens, and what’s more – for megapolis’ citizens. Because the problem on which author focused is typical rather for central streets of the world capitals and doesn’t engage that much the periphery of the city. As it is this problem is trivial – loneliness, but due to Vita Bujvid’s foreshortening it gets characteristics of our time and even social shades that are not really typical for Vita’s works.

Love – is another topic that Vita engages in her works. Though in this context it is not quite clear which kind of love she’s talking about– is it love to the person or love to the thing, is it humanism or fetishism. Probably it is the second one, love to the thing, multiplied by loneliness of one single citizen in the big city, where peculiar system of relationships between people exists.

Stylistic of the project imitates fashion photography because for the representatives of the new society glossy magazines pictures are becoming some kind of example to follow and Vita Bujvid, who spent seven years working in fashion industry, plays with these standards really masterfully. Style of magazines publications is sustained; works use ‘series’ as a characteristic, when events take place as if it was in comics or ‘neo-noir’ film storyboards.

One of the series (dedicated to the topic if suicide) also brings us to the ‘neo-noir’ stylistic. It is poignant story of unrequited love and of how human life loses its value, when fetishism replaces the real sense (or sense of reality), when broken heel could be a tragedy, as a break with lover or the death of his beloved cat. This substitution of values ​​is expressed in the visual solution of the series - the viewer sees only the legs in fine and, of course, expensive shoes, which is required by the genre of fashion photography. While looking at them viewer subconsciously searches for the inscription at the corner: "Helen is in Prada». After all, the author argues, in the modern ‘glossy’ world, people really care about how they look after their death.

Love theme is depicted in fragments – in such works as “Leningrad girl” (“Leningradka”), “Yalta”, in triptych “Date” (“Svidaniye”) and diptych “Passion” (“Strast”) lovers, alfonses on vacations and other representatives of “love for money” social class are shown only from the bottom. Anyway, this life-affirming part of the project justifies the whole name – though small (piccolo) it is still love (amore) and it still exists.

Using only photographic basis Bulvid transfers project on the another level of modern art – stretched on a frame and hand-painted works are becoming not just  imprints, but a painting pieces, which, as we know, are unique and exist in a single copy.

Varvara Mykhaylovskaya