Julia Kissina
#Photographe
- Exposition
Julia Kissina - Shadows cast people
POBEDA Gallery is proud to present new series of Julia Kissina “Shadows cast people”. The project was shown at Paris Photo, VOLTA6 and will be a part of Pobeda Gallery presentation at ART-MOSCOW art fair.
Julia Kissina’s new photographic series Shadows Cast People is built on a single device: at one and the same time, namely on a sunny afternoon at five or six p.m., from one and the same point, usually a balcony, a street scene is photographed. Sometimes it is a random passer-by and sometimes crowds of people that have gathered for a celebration. Some of the pictures produce slight vertigo in the beholder, for they are explicitly reversed. But this formal simplicity indeed makes sense: while looking at the series, you become dependent on this new world, the black protagonists of which &ndash... - Exposition
Julia Kissina I can see something you can't see
Julia Kissina lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again: "I can see something you can't see." Particularly children are being metamorphosed, also by Hollywood directors working in the horror film genre, from their proverbial childlike innocence into small monsters. The genre is built upon suspense in which initially only slightly altered, irrational patterns of behaviour prepare the way for the protagonists' sudden decline, where the uncanny and paranormal have the upper hand. With these images Kissina, already known as a subtle story teller with or without her camera, describes dream and trance states; her artistic roots lie in surrealism and sweep into our contemporary world. Everything is mere parody - or is it not? Something slightly disquieting...
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POBEDA Gallery is proud to present new series of Julia Kissina “Shadows cast people”. The project was shown at Paris Photo, VOLTA6 and will be a part of Pobeda Gallery presentation at ART-MOSCOW art fair.
Julia Kissina’s new photographic series Shadows Cast People is built on a single device: at one and the same time, namely on a sunny afternoon at five or six p.m., from one and the same point, usually a balcony, a street scene is photographed. Sometimes it is a random passer-by and sometimes crowds of people that have gathered for a celebration. Some of the pictures produce slight vertigo in the beholder, for they are explicitly reversed. But this formal simplicity indeed makes sense: while looking at the series, you become dependent on this new world, the black protagonists of which &ndash...
Julia Kissina lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again: "I can see something you can't see." Particularly children are being metamorphosed, also by Hollywood directors working in the horror film genre, from their proverbial childlike innocence into small monsters. The genre is built upon suspense in which initially only slightly altered, irrational patterns of behaviour prepare the way for the protagonists' sudden decline, where the uncanny and paranormal have the upper hand. With these images Kissina, already known as a subtle story teller with or without her camera, describes dream and trance states; her artistic roots lie in surrealism and sweep into our contemporary world. Everything is mere parody - or is it not? Something slightly disquieting...