Alisa MARTYNOVA
Anima
To 25 May
Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale 2024
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I’m fascinated by the universal themes of change, time and space, and dreams. The emergence and rapid evolution of technology contribute to the creation of a parallel universe, perfectly real and almost as tangible as the one we’ve always lived in. This universe has been created by human beings and evolves by feeding off human beings’ reality, while human beings feed off this reality.
“In our time, a mythical time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machines and organisms.”
Anne Harraway, Cyborg Manifesto, 1985
My Anima project represents the starting point for a complex metamorphosis of technology and human lives. Lives intimately intertwined and on the verge of impossibility. It’s a visual journey into the intangible, shifting illusion of digital reality inhabited and nurtured by its creatures, suggesting that our reality too is ephemeral, subjective and, essentially, exists nowhere else but in our minds.
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Biography
Alisa Martynova is a Russian documentary photographer currently based in Florence, Italy. Her awards include the Canon Young Photographers Award (2019), the World Press Photo Award in the Portraits Series section (2021), the Magenta Foundation’s UNSTUCK Award (2022) and the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award (2023). His work has been exhibited in festivals and galleries such as Photo Brussels, Cortona on the move, Encontros da Imagem, Planches Contact, Tremplin Jeunes Talents, La Gacilly photography festival, Italian Culture Institute of Addis Ababa, Fisheye gallery, Reich für die Insel and Leica galleries. His work has been published by Internazionale, D-Repubblica, Leica Fotografie International, Fisheye magazine and 20er magazine.