Anastasia Samoylova (Moscow, 1984) is said to have the spirit of a
flâneur,
a born stroller who wanders aimlessly through the city, whose pleasure lies in scrutinizing her surroundings while remaining unnoticed.
As a good observer, attentive to the transformation of the urban territory, the photographer gives an account of how globalization and capitalism have been altering the relationship of the subject with the city, surrendered to the logic of consumption.
Hence, in her latest work,
Image Cities,
this innovator of documentary photography has focused on the proliferation of advertising images in public spaces.
Images of a monumental scale that are integrated into the architecture, creating a strange effect, as ambivalent and contradictory as the times we are living through.
The series can be seen at the Mapfre Foundation's KBr photography center in Barcelona and will arrive in Madrid next June.
Show that is accompanied by a publication co-published with the publisher Hatje Cantz.
They are images that resemble a
collage
where reality is integrated with fiction to condense a set of visual ideas that offer the viewer multiple meanings.
The portrait of big cities that every day look more like each other.
In the photographs, the human figure appears diminished, indifferent to its surroundings, one more element within a set of elements of a different nature, of geometric shapes and skilful interplay between the figure and the background.
a
collage
of places and times where the use of the image of women in contemporary society is also alluded to.
A red eye watching from her billboard in Times Square, New York, 2021. Anastasia Samoylova
A woman walks through the shopping street of Moscow's Arbat, 2021. Anastasia Samoylova
Construction fence (“Technology”).
Madrid, 2022. Anastasia Samoylova
Reproduction of building with birds.
Amsterdam, 2022. Anastasia Samoylova
Beauty salon.
New York, 2022. Anastasia Samoylova
Construction fence with marine image.
Monaco, 2022. Anastasia Samoylova
Lingerie ad.
Paris, 2021. Anastasia Samoylova
Yard reproduction.
Amsterdam.
2022. Anastasia Samoylova
Historical theater poster.
Barcelona, 2022. Anastasia Samoylova
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