Artist Statement

 

I love the dictatorship of the spirit…

Vera Polozkova

  

I don’t consider myself a photographer, but rather a “courtyard poet”. Film camera or digital are just my tools among others (Photoshop is used as a kind of magic).

I follow the non-subject approach which is an effort to reflect overwhelming feelings possessing my soul for a long time, an attempt to answer the essential questions of Being. It’s an unhurried and quiet report about events in the inner world.

Suddenness and chance nature of the process, those “accurate inaccuracies” of the moment, are of great value to me. I realize the necessity of the author’s make of the original print and the importance of the project’s atmosphere, its exact context, the whole being more than just the sum of its elements.

I work in long cycles, with natural silences in between.

 

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I’m seeking opportunities to exhibit my work. Let me know if you’re interested, or simply want to comment. Please contact me bigcrowstudio(at)gmail.com.

Thanks!

  

Some publications:

 

Photographic enlarger. Magazine Russian Pioneer, Moscow, Russia, №6(24), 2011

River under the river. Interview with O. Khoroshilova. Magazine Time Out, St.Petersburg, Russia, № 77/2005

«Aufbruch. ПРОРЫВ. Die neue russische Fotografie. Новая Русская фотография». Catalogue, Koln, Germany, 1998

Vilensky D. St. Petersburg Photopostscriptum Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow // IMAGO, Winter 95/96, Bratislava, 1996

«PHOTO – reclamation. Фото – рeкламэйшн. New Art from Moscow and S-Petersburg». Catalog Exhibition, John Hansard Gallery, London, England, 1994

"Selbstidentifikation: Positionen St. Petersburger Kunst Von 1970 Bis Heute / Self-Identification Positions in St. Petersburg Art from 1970 until Today". Kiel, Germany, 1994

«Фото-Postsciptum». Catalogue, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia, 1993

«Photo Manifesto. Contemporary Photography in the USSR». Walker, Ursitti & McGinniss; New York, 1991

Mihalevkin B. «Empathy». Magazine Soviet Photography, № 3, Moscow, USSR, 1988

 

Artworks in collections:

 

The State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO, St.Petersburg, Russia

The Museum of the History of Photography (MHP), St.Petersburg, Russia

Humanitarian Foundation “Free Culture”, St.Petersburg, Russia

The Navigator Foundation, Boston, MA, USA

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, USA

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers (USA)

Manfred Schmalriede Collection (Berlin, Gemany)

Private collection in Russia, Germany, USA, etc

 

Participation in the auction, etc

Special SKY section of Duncan Miller Gallery (selected by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography)

"Sotheby's", London, UK, 2013