Sicut Dico by Vika Temnova

If I have to introduce myself on a dating app, I say I’m an adult content creator or a professional villain. 

When I want to appear “normal”, I introduce myself as an art manager, or an event producer, or simply as an artist. 

Very often, I say that I’m a former marketing strategist and project manager who now only accepts to sell art or sex. 

For those who want to fuck my artists without my permission, I’m a pimp. A hardcore pimp, with lawyers and thugs on my side.

For kind weirdos, queers and all kinds of perverts I preach self love and acceptance. Hope for a change. Confidence. Power to be whoever the fuck you want.

Sometimes I simply perform and entertain. Sometimes I also just survive and fight.

Honestly? I have so many roles and characters that I can lose myself. Then I hire professionals.

In this case, Vika Temnova is 1000%. Not only did she manage to see me as I am in a simple video call and brief meeting, but she also met six members of my team, dressed them in other people’s clothes, styled us all in less than an hour, and made sure we all fell in love with her. 

On top of that, she’s a Ukrainian artist and the fact that she agreed to work with me is a huge honor. Follow her on IG (and consider donating to Ukraine if you have a steady income).

The first episode of ‘What the fuck is Sicut Dico’ is out btw. Thanks to everyone who supported me along the way. I love you.

The photos we’re publishing now are just previews. Behind-the-scenes videos will soon be available on fan sites. 

Creative directing, photography and style: Vika Temnova

Models: Sicut Dico, Profaneportraits, Scrote Esquire, Gene Bogolepov, Julia Vilianen, Prince of Ticks, Paw Patrol

a few more details about this collaboration to disclose:

These photos were taken on Wednesday (10.07) of this week.

On Tuesday, Vika Temnova spent 6 hours in +30°C heat driving around Berlin without air conditioning to choose clothes for people she hadn’t even seen.

On Monday, we cancelled the promotion of Gene’s concert at Berghain because kremlin terrorists had bombed a hospital in Kiev over the weekend.

I’ve hired Vika to shoot a promotional campaign for my own website and her next task is to help my dear assistant Sil, based in Kiev, with the avatar, banner photo and so on.

So I’d like to turn this collaboration into a little political performance and ask you, my lovely audience, to help us fund and promote this project to raise awareness of the current situation in Ukraine.

Why should we do this? Because the world needs to know how it feels. Because artists are the people who should speak out the most. We should not get used to what is going on.

Because the fight against fascism is a task for us all. Yes, Ukraine is on the front line, but the war is all over the world. We have to look deeper inside to win. Each within ourselves. And we can’t win this fight without art.