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 .