Venus is freezing Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

This photo refers to the series “Noir of grotesque” and is devoted to Saint-Petersburg. This series is absolutely cinematographic and refers us to the noir tradition in the cinematography. And despite of the fact that noir is not a genre but rather an intonation, you can find in the works of the photographer uncatchable combination of traits that are typical for noir . For Filmov Saint-Petersburg is a city according to Dostoevsky traditionally “premeditated”, a city-“stage set”. Characters are impersonalized and present different masks in this space. The case is not only that faces on all photos of this series either in masks or in sunglasses or diverted or put down, generally withdrawn into the shadows as in the noir films. The matter is that an image itself is designed based on the law of mask. The photographer doesn’t interested in “intimate” of a man/character. It corresponds to classical spirit of the city (because Petersburg was invented as a classical city first of all) – he deals with fragility of human being the same ruthless way. His melancholy is rather grotesque not nostalgic. In this sense it is thrown out of the noir intonation, for which “searches of lost time”, nostalgic melancholy, sense of irreversibility of past.

Photography:Gelatin on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:15.7 W x 11.8 H x 7.9 D in

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