digiana studio roman kalinovski solo exhibition
From April 7th through May 7th, 2023, DigiAna Studio in Long Island City, NY proudly hosted the opening of the solo exhibition by @kalinova828, an event that brought together a vibrant and diverse crowd of visitors who gathered to celebrate, connect, and engage with the artist’s evocative work in a shared atmosphere of creativity and inspiration; the exhibition remains on view until May 7th, and during this time, we are also curating a series of intimate and thematically rich conversation salons centered on unique and thought-provoking topics related to art, technology, and sensory experience, so we warmly encourage you to stay tuned for our upcoming event updates—and if you’re interested in attending or visiting the show, please don’t hesitate to reach out and contact DigiAna directly for more information.
ROMAN KALINOVSKI
STUDIES FOR AN IMPOSSIBLE PORTRAIT
Exhibition Statement by Seungjin Lee
As an organizer of the DigiAna Group, I have had the pleasure of knowing Roman Kalinovski for many years, having witnessed his artistic evolution through numerous exhibitions and performance events since the founding of our collective six years ago. Across the breadth of his work—whether in the glitch-infused imagery of his Hatsune Miku series or the nuanced paintings featured in this current solo exhibition—I have consistently been struck by his probing engagement with the complex relationship between human desire and digitized contemporary culture. His practice captures, with both rigor and sensitivity, the challenging interplay between the ephemeral realm of digital image-making and the labor-intensive process of manual painting. It is a joy and an honor to help organize and host this solo presentation of his work in our newly opened studio.
The exhibition unfolds with a quiet but compelling gravity. Arranged from left to right, beginning with eight paintings along one wall and concluding with three on the other, the installation is designed to invite viewers to engage with each piece deliberately and attentively. In an era when we are inundated with visual information—scrolling past countless images on mobile devices, swiping through posts on Instagram, often with barely a second of pause—it has become increasingly rare to encounter artworks in a space that asks for slow, embodied looking. As artificial intelligence advances and the volume of AI-generated imagery floods our screens, the boundaries between human-made and machine-made art are becoming ever more ambiguous. One can now view thousands of hyper-detailed, algorithmically produced artworks at will, raising urgent questions about authorship, authenticity, and perception.
This context is precisely why we founded DigiAna Studio: to create a grounded space, both physical and conceptual, where artists and visitors can reflect on the evolving intersections of digital technology and human experience. I see this studio as a place that offers not just time and space, but atmosphere—a rare opportunity to slow down, reconnect with the sensorial qualities of physical media, and consider what it means to create, perceive, and feel in an era of rapid virtualization. Kalinovski’s paintings offer this very opportunity: they serve as subtle yet powerful reminders of the human touch, of visual uncertainty, and of a poetic sensibility that resists algorithmic comprehension. Through their layered gestures and contemplative presence, his works express a quiet recombination of spirit and image that words may struggle to explain, but which the eye—and perhaps the heart—can intuitively recognize.
The DigiAna Group was founded to bring together artists who explore the territory between analog tactility and digital immersion, creating multi-sensory experiences that resist easy categorization. Over the past six years, we have organized a wide range of projects—group exhibitions, performance events, YouTube live streams, and virtual reality shows—featuring more than forty artists from across the globe. DigiAna Studio, which opened two months ago, continues this mission as a hybrid workspace, salon, and event venue. It remains open and welcoming to all who wish to collaborate, present new work, or simply join the ongoing conversation about art, technology, and human connection.