Yulia Naganova
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW and read the article about mobile apps there. It has become the biggest and the most important discovery for me during the last few yearsJ
I was blown away, I started to read a lot, and fed through myself tons of photographs, took in all this information and experimented with the apps. I worked mostly with flowers and the photo process carried me away. Time was flying very quickly.
I still show interest in shooting still life and flowers in particular most of all. Besides of that I love to work with nature patterns and create something abstract that is not obvious and the viewer can not detect from the first glance what is in front of them.
The visual language of your works seems to be the result of a constant evolution of your searching for new means to express the ideas you explore: your inquiry into the expressive potential of photography combines together figurative as subtle abstract feature into a coherent balance. Before starting to elaborate about your production, we would suggest to our readers to visit www. naganova. me in order to get a synoptic view of your multifaceted artistic production: in the meanwhile, would you like to tell to our readers something about your process and set up? In particular, would you shed light on your main sources of inspiration?
Let me mark out a few items that are most important and interesting for me:
· light
· shadows
· texture
· color and tints
I ' m a huge lover of the natural light. The light is one of the key moments I always pay attention to. Sometimes the light is the only component you need to get an interesting photograph. I use my light boxes only in the case when I’ m not satisfied with the natural light or when I don’ t need the shadows and my aim is getting a flat picture at the end.
Wherever I am, I always pay attention to interesting shadows, their shapes and degree of transparency. I have a lot of work where the shadows are of primary importance but not the complementary component.
I refer myself to visuals like most of artists do. But there is as much visual sense in myself as kinesthetic one. I adore different kinds of textures. And my art only confirms it. Fabrics, tree bark, water, fruit pulp, leaves … Ordinary things that I either change out of all recognition preserving only the texture, or if it’ s a representative image, tree leaves for example, I try to edit it in a way that you’ d want to touch them.