Julia Lazumirska
Mixed feelings (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Flowers I have collected to pose as models in front of the camera always give me mixed feelings. On the one hand, I create a beautiful picture, admiring their tenderness and fragility, and on the other hand,
I suffer from guilt that I have taken their lives in exchange for only their portrait.
I decided to express an ambivalent emotional experience visually when the same object evokes opposite feelings in a person at the same time.
This very complicated range of senses shows us the imperfection of the habitual thought process of splitting everything into black and white.
AUTHOR
I am a lens based artist living in Kiev, Ukraine. For me, creative photography is a non-judgmental observation of the visible external world and the hidden world of the soul, which I portray, collect and study in the form of photographs. Fragile and refined flowers with which I associate my thoughts, feelings and experiences become silent witnesses of my internal dialogues with myself.
My pictures are always a compromise between the earthly and the understandable, as well as the existential and the mysterious, they convey the ghostly beauty of a more subtle world, which we do not see physically, but can only feel through our transcendental filters and channels.
All my works are my self-portraits at the same time. However, the act of self-knowledge is not so important than the moment when the viewer finds a part of himself in my photos. I would like that both processes of creativity and contemplation there were a unification of different people through a common "feeling of the moment".
Education
2016 - Kyiv Photography School, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 - Dimitri Bogachuk's author's photo courses
Group exhibitions:
2020 - Photo Kyiv Fair 2020 online
2020 - "New Generation", Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards&Mentions
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