The Salt Moon Blows Curly in Branches

2024
Materials: photogram, mixed author's technique, bromine-silver process, barite cardboard, gold toner, 1/1
90 sm x 49 sm
Category: mixed media
Item Number: 021924
130 000 / 1 130 €
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About the Work
About the Artist
This is part of a long-term project that includes performative practice, exhibition installations, educational events, mediations, about the most important substance of life - water, about space and about the search for new ways of communication with nature and the surrounding world. On moonlit nights, the Lara immerses sheets of paper with photosensitive silver emulsion in a natural reservoir and exposes them to the light of the Moon, then develops and fixes them. "Moongrams" is the artist's term. Each image is unique, an artifact of the internal landscape of a natural reservoir, which is formed depending on the natural and cosmic conditions at the moment.

Lara Fedotova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, objects, sound, installation – from turning to alternative techniques of manual photo printing to searching for original techniques and working with neural networks.

Lara's artistic practice is focused on the perception and re-signification of the rapidly changing landscape around a person. Her long-term projects are based on the practice of interaction with border natural spaces. She introduced the term "lunogram" into the artistic lexicon. A moongram is an analog photographic image, an artifact obtained without a camera by immersing photographic paper in water and exposing it to moonlight.

Studied photography, video, sound at the Rodchenko School, artistic strategies at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Participant of the residences "Friends of the Vaults" v-a-c, POLYPHONIZE in Cyprus, ICA Moscow together with Goldsmiths University of London, the Weekend Faculty of the MSI "Garage" (Marta Rosler, Arseny Zhilyaev).

Winner of the All-Russian competition "Vzlet", nominee of the 5th and 1st Moscow Art Prize, participant of the XV Krasnoyarsk Biennale of Contemporary Art, VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, All-Russian interdisciplinary project "Art in Expedition: Researcher and Artist", the exhibition "Interventions. Act according to the rules and without" in the General Staff Building of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Photomonth in Belgrade and other exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Author of several artist books, copies are stored in the collections of MAMM, Garage, Zaryadye. The layout of the book "New Semiotics of the River M" was included in the short list of winners of the DUMMY PHOTOBOOK AWARD.

Personal exhibitions were held at VDNKh and Winzavod.