About
I believe in sensible universe and non-randomness of what is taking place. I subtly feel the invisible connections between all living and inanimate beings, between the past and what hasn’t happened yet. This is my starting point, my anchor and foothold. This is what I want to talk about. All around is a continuous connection of everything with everyone. The external picture is just a shell of what’s really going on. The world doesn’t start anywhere and ends nowhere, it is cyclical and interdependent. I feel it as a living organism, where everyone is indispensable. What I think about affects what happens around. I’m a co-creator, just like you. I try to catch and convey these connections by organizing them visually. My favorite tools are absurdity and play, something that knocks out of the usual linear forms. I feel like a conductor from the cosmic to the human symbols. And I’m trying to find answers to the question: “How to remember about the ordinary day magic, being absorbed in routine and everyday life?”
Я верю в разумную вселенную и неслучайность происходящего. Я тонко чувствую невидимые связи между всеми живыми и неживыми существами, событиями, между прошлым и тем, что ещё не произошло. Это моя отправная точка, мой якорь, моя опора. Это то, о чём я хочу говорить. Всё вокруг бесконечность и безграничность. Это неразрывная и непрерывная связь всего со всем. Внешняя картинка – лишь оболочка происходящего. Мир нигде не начинается и нигде не заканчивается, он цикличен и взаимозависим. Я ощущаю его, как единый живой организм, где каждый важен. То, о чём я думаю влияет на то, что происходит вокруг. Я сотворец, как и ты. Эти связи я стараюсь поймать и передать, упорядочивая их визуально. Мои любимые инструменты – это абсурдность и игра, что-то, что выбивает из привычных линейных форм. Я ощущаю себя проводником с космического на человеческие символы и пытаюсь найти ответы на вопрос «Как помнить о волшебстве серого дня, будучи поглощенным рутиной и бытом?»
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Education:
2012 | MFA in Photogarphy, Europian Institute of Design, IED Madrid, Spain |
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 | Hidden Motherhood, PhEST, International Photography and Art Festival, Monopoli, Italy |
2020 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Fotografika Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (online tour) |
2018 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Cortona on the Move Photofestival, Cortona, Italy |
2012 | Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Aarhus Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark |
Selected group exhibitions:
2020 | Hidden Mothehood, Singapore International Photography Festival (5 November – 30 January 2020) |
2019 | Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan |
2018 | Gallery 21 / Triennal of Photography, Hamburg, Germany Puree with a taste of Triangles, Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show, USA |
2017 | The City of Brides, Photographing the Female, The Willow School, New Jersey, USA The City of Brides, Kolga Tbilisi PhotoFestival, Tbilisi, Georgia The City of Brides, Lumiere Brothers Gallery, Moscow, Russia The City of Brides, FOCUS PhotoFestival «Photographing the Female» exhibition, Mumbai, India Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan Puree with a taste of Triangles, European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
2016 | The City of Brides, Suwon PASA Festival, South Korea The City of Brides, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan The City of Brides, European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
2015 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Encontros da Imagem Photo Festival «Seeing is Believing», Braga, Portugal The City of Brides, «She Loves me, She Loves me Not», Centre of Photography, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
2014 | The City of Brides, Month of Photography in Norilsk, Russia The City of Brides, Pingyao Photography Festival, China |
2013 | The City of Brides, Encontros da Imagem Photo festival, Braga, Portugal Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland |
2012 | The City of Brides, PhotoVisa Festival, Krasnodar, Russia Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark Coexist gallery, Southend-on-sea, UK Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Backlight 2011 photo festival, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Getty Images Gallery, London, England Phodar Biennial, Pleven, Bulgaria ArteLaguna, Nappe area of the Arsenale, Venice, Italy The A.D Gallery, «Inner & outer landscape», USA |
2010 | Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, «Young Russian Photography 2010 2/2. Time» Fotodepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Gallery «KINO», Moscow, Russia Gallery «NIU», Barcelona, Spain Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Tashkentalle-2010, Fitfth International Tashkent Exhibition Photo Biennial Tashkent, Uzbekistan Gallery «Captains of Industry», Melbourn, Australia Gallery «Charnwood Arts», Lestershir, England |
Grants and scholarships:
2020 | Zeiss Fotography Awards Finalist |
2014 | Lucie Foundation Scholarship Finalist |
2013 | Lens Culture Student Photography Award Finalist |
2012 | PhotoVisa Festival Finalist, Krasnodar, Russia Honorable Mention of Emergentes DST 2012, Portugal Luceo Student Project Award winner, USA Nominated on Prix Pictet Award |
2011 | Finalist of ArteLaguna Prize, Venice, Italy Winner of «Inner & outer Landscape» International Juried Exhibition, North Caroline, USA Winner of IED Master of Fine Art Photography Scholarship, Madrid, Spain |
Books:
2014 Go there I don’t know where, Bring that I don’t know what, Selfpublished handmade book, edition of 25
2013 The City of Brides, Selfpublished Handmade book, edition of 150
Collections:
Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan
Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Ptivate collections
Publications:
GUP magazine, Photonews, LensCulture, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Musee Magazine, Mulieris magazine, Life magazine China, EEP Berlin, NIDO, Annabelle, Blink magazine, Zoom
Texts / Interviews
Interview by Jing Zhao, Musee magazine, 2019 [EN]
Interview by Maya Hristova «Listen to the Space», EEP Berlin 2019 [EN]
Interview by Marika Krystman, Ladnebebe.pl 2019 [PL]
Text by Helena Falabino, Escaping death: on ritual and photography, GUP magazine, 2017 [EN]
Interview by Olga Osipova, Bird in Flight, 2015 [EN] [RU]