A KALTBLUT exclusive. Photography by Sergey Skip. The models are Tina Dubrovsky and Blathin Eckhardt. Hair and makeup by Rà Valentina Nikolaidis. Special thanks to Studio DB. In “The Pageant”, performers stage tableaux that blend 18th-century masquerades, nudity, and neural hallucinations. The series begins with models shot on set, and gradually falls apart into an absurd mix of bodies, props, and neurally imagined creatures inspired by David Lynch’s filmic language.
It’s really about that psychological split — how you show up in the world, how you’re supposed to be present, social, “normal”. But inside there’s only anxiety, confusion, absence. Identity collapses, and what’s left is this awkward, haunted thing trying to exist in a space. Haunted by the deep desire to belong while feeling perpetually alien.
Photographer: Sergey Skip @sergeyskip
Models: Tina Dubrovsky @agent_mewmew and Blathin Eckhardt @proggybla
MUAH: Rà Valentina Nikolaidis @ra.valentina.makeup
Special thanks to Studio DB @studio.db.berlin
Sergey Skip is a Berlin-based visual artist working across photography, mixed media, and installation, exploring visceral states, subconscious trauma, and bodily disconnection through emotionally charged image-making.
