The Eject
Series depict winter landscapes shot on medium format film in Szczyrk, Poland. The incompleteness within the process of creating colour from negatives in conjunction with the faded tones in the images mirrors my displacement from Siberia as a child.
The work has:
- sold at The Affordable Art Fair through The Little Black Gallery and exhibited at Winder Wonderland show
- exhibited at ‘Perspective’ organized by Premier Art/Curious Duke Gallery during Frieze fever in October
“Currently gaining widespread exposure for her hauntingly beautiful photographs we are proud to feature Iulia Filipovscaia in our perspectives exhibition.
Spaced over both floors of the gallery, Iulia’s photographs possess the ability to affect the environment surrounding them. The series of large square photographs, untitled 01, untitled 02 and untitled 06 positioned by the entrance of the gallery depict otherworldly desolate forests lovingly documented in faded dusky tones. One can almost feel the harsh wind and smell the pine. The way she chooses to take her photographs, altering the colours and adding a blurred ghostlike effect gives what could be an otherwise mundane and everyday scene an otherworldly edge. In her own words, ‘I document and create objects, which are caught in a state of transition. I enjoy looking at how objects do not necessarily have a fixed place or meaning and how they change according to their presentation. By doing this I feel that I am questioning the ‘concrete’ world that surrounds us.
Iulia’s world is not the grey commonplace one that we inhabit, but one but filled with mystical possibilities. Commonplace objects are viewed through a romantic tinted glaze that allows them to transcend their origin. ”
- shortlisted for Matt Roberts Salon 2011
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