Mariana Fantich (Ukraine) and Dominic Young (UK) are London-based artists collaborating since 2008 as Fantich & Young.
Working across sculpture, animation and digital media, they investigate how historical and contemporary conflicts shape identity, ritual and social structures. Combining meticulous craftsmanship with experimental technologies, their artwork encompasses a conceptual and aesthetical approach to the juxtaposition of symbolic materials. Fantich & Young create immersive, often unsettling experiences that invite viewers to confront moral, political, and emotional complexities. Their practice reflects on the legacies of violence and authority, transforming historical narratives into vivid, poetic, and critically engaging artworks.
Their artwork explores themes that relate to competition, hierarchy, imperialism and colonialism, winners and losers, invaders and the invaded, persecutors and the persecuted and the ambiguous spaces in-between.
Their artwork addresses the parallels between social evolution and evolution in the natural world: Nature as model or nature as threat.
Their artwork critiques theories that relate to Darwinism, Social Darwinism and Economic Darwinism.
