INNERVISIONS II. Collective exhibitions Automatic translate

The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the project “INNERVISIONS II. Collective Exhibitions ”, dedicated to independent author photography and focused on supporting a lively and organic art process. The second season of the project was carried out using crowdfunding, which is an exceptional rarity for Russia.

The format of the project is traveling exhibitions in Russia and abroad, accompanied by a program of creative meetings. The premiere of the second season took place in January 2016 in St. Petersburg, then it was shown in Minsk and Volzhsky. In August – September, the project will be presented at photo festivals in Tobolsk, Uglich and Chelyabinsk.

The exhibition program of the project consists of several personal and collective exhibitions. At the Lumiere Brothers Photography Center, four will be presented: Private Life, Urban Space, Foundart, and No Subject, with an expanded slide show format; and also a video project by Andrey Krashenitsa “RostovEveryDay”.

The theme of the second season is a documentary photograph of the human environment. The visual world around us is full of amazing events, most of which every moment is born and goes into oblivion. Objects and spaces, lighting effects and atmospheric conditions are constantly interacting: they add up to chords and melodies. All this is so fleeting that it is practically not captured by our eyesight, just as ultrasound is not perceived by hearing. And only photography can open for us this unfamiliar reality. Exactly such a photograph is dedicated to the Innervisions exhibition project.

“Urban space” - constantly changing, aging and renewing - it is interesting to observe it as a natural phenomenon. When shooting a city, we look at a person through the space created by him. Photography reconciles with a complex urban environment. The photographer discovers the ability to see harmony where, at first glance, it does not exist, and all the roughness, disorder - everything works for him already, acquiring harmony and completeness in the pictures. Photography is an addiction, but also a therapy for an urban person.

"Private life" - even in public space there is a place for personal, innermost. It hides under dress codes, wraps itself in generally accepted “candy wrappers”. But sometimes it breaks out, and then a real theater of the absurd unfolds around us. It remains only to stop, with amazement, observe and record what is happening. Street photography is always improvisation - you go out into the street with a camera in complete ignorance, what a surprise the “street” will present to you. Just a split second, parallel realities intersect, an ideal puzzle of circumstances is added to the frame, and… everyone goes on about their business.

“Foundart” is a direction in art, when an artist does not create a work of art, but finds it and elevates it to this status. The exhibition presents photographs of man-made objects that are not related to art, but seemingly such. Objects were found by exhibitors and photographed without interference.

“No Subject” - the email client writes to us when we forgot to enter the header. But we have not forgotten, we do not want to do this. Photography has become a servant of ill-fated literature. With its help it is already impossible to prove anything, but the inertia of the thinking of public institutions still forces authors to slyly stretch their true statement on the imposed narrative. “No ideas but in things,” sounded in 1927. Only what you see is interesting. Take a look.

"RostovEveryDay". A video project by Andrey Krashenitsa about how nothing happens in this city. Short videos are deprived of an exciting plot, they do not have formal drama, they are primitive and atomic, the end is open, the expectations of the viewer are almost always deceived. But at the same time they should have become some genes, molecules, elementary particles that make up the everyday gray life of a provincial city.

Within the framework of the exhibition, an intensive workshop on street photography by Ilya Shtutsa .

On August 21, several creative meetings will be held at the Center, in parallel with Fujifilm’s Touch and try.