Nature nominee

“Pond” is a visual poem in seven scenes. Each image refers and complements the others, adding new nuances and sensations, thus exploring the possibilities and variations about the theme: the pond, the lilies, in a hot august day.
These serie is fully framed my contemplative/photography practice, the practice of aesthetic attention and the "aesthetic ecology" (David Haskell), being these the main axes that make up my work.
Walk and be present in a state of deep connection with the environment, which gives way to a state of availability, that is, the cultivation of an “aesthetic attention” in natural environments and specifically in city parks, lived as spaces of resistance. Parks provide us the space and the possibility of inhabiting different scales of attention. Their mere existence in the middle of the city embodies resistance and exemplifies the close link between space and resistance to the ”economy of attention”(Jenny Odell). Perfect places and spaces where to deploy free and floating attention and finding the beauty that can emerge from that attitude just a few metres from home.

"August of another summer, and once again
I am drinking the sun,
and the lilies again are spread across the water.
I know now what they want is to touch each other.”

Mary Oliver.

Julia Casesnoves is an artist photographer based in Valencia. Diploma in Social Work from the University of Valencia and Masters in Professional Photography from the Efti School of Madrid.
From very early on her practice is oriented towards experimentation and the search for a universe of her own. In 2017 she participates in the Parallax art fair of London with her work “Light comes through” piece that will mark the drift towards Nature as the main theme of her work. This work has been published in magazines such as Artdoc Photography Magazine or The Edge of Humanity Magazine and awarded at the “Tokio Foto International Awards” , “Julia Margaret Cameron Awards” or “The Prix de la Photographie Paris”, and has been exhibited in Paris, London, Budapest, Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona.
With a multidisciplinary profile in different areas of knowledge and expressive arts. Her artistic practice is the result of her own vital research in different interrelated fields. Poetry, philosophy, psychology, somatic, dance, ecology, and spirituality … are some of the themes that underpin her artistic practice.
Currently she is in training in “Body, Science and Arts-based Research” at the Tae School from Barcelona.