How well do we really know each other? Each of us contains a myriad of selves that shift with mood, places and circumstances. And sometimes the version of us we hope to be seen never arrives as intended. And women? More often than not they are judged by their looks, and later – if ever – by actions.
“Distorted Not Disturbed” is a visual inquiry into the fractures between self-perception and external interpretation. These are portraits of fragmented readings. Not of disturbed souls - but of distorted truths, where the self you show, the self you feel, and the self others see, collide and splinter.
These works are physically altered - refracted through the textured surface of a box of chocolates – you truly never know which version of a person you’re gonna see next, turning the ordinary into the uncanny. Inspired by Soviet posters and cubism, the series reveal that we’re rarely seen as we wish to be.
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Nika Belianina is an award-winning Toronto-based writer-director, camerawoman and a fine art photographer with a flare for magical realism. Her exhibition history spans over 30 curated shows and art fairs in Belgium, Canada, Peru and the USA. Among them are the Contact Festival, TOAF, Abbozzo gallery, Head On PhotoFestival and Cultural Center at the School of Fine Arts in Lima. She is a recipient of the Ontario and Canada Art Council's grants and of various photography, cinematography and film awards. She has shot projects around the world and at the artist residencies in Mexico, Peru and USA, including KHN Center for the Arts and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, where she later served as a juror
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