Moving natures 

lit print 
 2013 

 This project was born out of a desire to enter into a direct dialogue with the most immobile of classical forms — still life. I was haunted by the question: what if the “dead nature” is not just fixed, but made to breathe? Enliven not with the plot, but with the very matter of the image, its time. I turned to analog alchemy: medium format, film, long exposures, frame overlay. Prolonged exposure turned the vase into a flowing shadow, and the fruits on the table into blurred traces of their own fall. The multi-exhibition intertwined a vase with flowers and the emptiness of a chair into a single ghostly pattern. Humor here was not just a device, but a necessary gesture of liberation — a way to break the stupor of the genre, to let the thrill of chance into it. The final step is manual printing, lit-printing. Each impression on paper became a unique evidence of this process of “revival”, preserving traces of the struggle of light and time on the emulsion. These prints are not just images of objects. These are the documents of their time shift, fragile shelters built from fragments of the classical form. They ask: where is the line between the frozen beauty of the past and the thrill of the present, which is already slipping away? And is it possible to keep harmony by allowing it to move and tremble?