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The Goblin’s Fruits Photograph - Limited Edition of 15

Natasha Yankelevich

Photography, Digital on Paper

Size: 16.5 W x 24.9 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The shooting was inspired by the Victorian aesthetics of opium dens, widespread in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In England, due to strict anti-alcohol laws, opium was cheaper than alcohol, which contributed to its high demand. Drug-containing drugs were popular and were actively advertised as universal remedies for many diseases and were recommended even to children. The title of the shoot refers to the poem "The Goblin Bazaar" written by Cristina Rossetti, sister of the painter Dante Rossetti, in 1862. In the plot of the poem, two sisters encounter insidious goblins selling delicious but forbidden fruits. The description of "goblin fruit" clearly symbolizes drugs - they are sweet, but once tasted them, he also craves them and slowly begins to fade away. It is believed that the poem was written by Christina under the tragic impression of the death of her sister-in-law, who died from an overdose of laudanum.

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Photography:

Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

15

Size:

16.5 W x 24.9 H x 0.1 D in

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I am a photographer and designer from Moscow, working in the genre of staged photography, creating projects about people and stories. Each of my series is a version of what life could be like if I were a different person like a traveler, a re-enactor, a historian at Cairo University, a representative of the Miao people around Luang Prabang, or the owner of a baroque mansion in 19th century London. A photographer can look behind closed doors and encounter other cultures and professions. So in my shoots I immerse myself in a whole spectre of themes with their accents, aesthetics and meanings. I try everything that attracts me and seems to be a parallel universe. Topics that invariably excite me: - renaissance aesthetics, renaissance person (universal human being); - ethnography, cultural peculiarities, the history of the region; - fashion, the effect of clothing on the individual (functionally and aesthetically); - folkloristics and the structure of fairy tales; - societies and social institutions (bygone and contemporary) with their distinctive features and identities; - charisma and charismatic personalities (past and present); - science and technology.

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