Video: Petersburg. Flood". Photo project by Anastasia Shelbakh
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Petersburg. Flood”is a series of photographs by Anastasia Shelbakh dedicated to her beloved city. Peter is a city of mood: it is always different for everyone. Even Alexander Sergeevich saw in him that "boredom, cold and granite", then "midnight countries beauty and wonder." To love him, you need to believe in a fairy tale. And it is impossible to understand otherwise how the ancestors managed to erect the city against all the laws of common sense! They could not build a single house here - everything was sinking.
“And Petropolis floated up like a newt, submerged to the waist in water,” - this is how poets wrote about the flood. Artists are also inclined to sing the praises of the elements, depicting Petersburg as an endless raging sea, from the waves of which the solitary golden spiers of Peter and Paul and the Admiralty stick out. In the works of Anastasia, on the contrary, the monumental silence of the water surface, which has swallowed trees, palaces and bridges, which has dissolved in itself the cast-iron patterns of the embankment fences and the Summer Garden, is striking.
The technique used to reverse the image, as if plunges the viewer into the depths of the underwater world. The orientation is lost. It is absolutely impossible to grasp where the top was once, where the bottom was. As if they erected a ghost town in the sky, and then carefully lowered it to the ground, slightly splashing everything around. A beautiful fairy tale - probably that's how it was …
Anastasia Shelbakh is a designer, artist, photographer, lives and works in St. Petersburg. A distinctive feature of her work is the ability to see beauty and harmony in the most ordinary and ordinary places, past which thousands of people pass every day without noticing anything. Fixing various states of landscape and architecture, she penetrates deeper than superficial contemplation, looks into the very essence of nature and, at some metaphysical level, conveys the energy of her sensations to the viewer through photographs. Anastasia actively participates in various exhibitions and photo projects. Anastasia has two solo exhibitions "Sun, come back!" and "Petersburg. Flood", as well as participation in exhibitions in the Union of Artists of Russia, Manege, Brodsky Museum and others. The works of the photographer are in private collections in Russia, the USA, France, Italy and Germany.
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