Photo exhibition of Nadezhda Naydenova "EQUATION WITH UNKNOWN"

Ordinary places are becoming unusual. Shooting objects turn into images and seem to dissolve in a color mirage. Ordinary people transform into unusual. With each work of the Equation with the Unknown exhibition, Nadezhda Naydenova invites to dialogue, immerses into the world of earthly images and non-earthly ideas, and again and again encourages equating the known and the unknown.

Nadezhda Naydenova: “I always thought that I had technical brains and no creative principles. But in 2008, when I was seriously interested in photography, an amazing and completely unknown world opened before me. But in any corner of the world there is a place that you want to keep in mind, and the camera is just that tool that makes it possible to save and visually tell about unusual and absolutely amazing places. ”

The work of Hope is the “visual story”, essentially a dialogue between the viewer and the work. Not by the author, but by the work. After all, artistic language has nothing to do with human. And who needs authors to shoot in the same way as anyone with a camera sees it. What is the meaning of art if it is no different from life?

The visual technique of “visual dialogue” is especially complicated when geographical objects become the subject of interest of the author. There is always the temptation to rely on reality, to go the beaten path of the image of the existing. However, the works of Nadezhda presented at the exhibition are fundamentally different. It is rather not a fixation of the existing, but a different view of the earthly world, and the human world. People in strange outfits are not perceived as festival mummers. They are, in fact, different, alien.

Hills - it will not be possible to immediately correlate with the place of shooting. Hope turned them into an image divorced from geography, the Platonic idea. Even a starfish - perhaps the most realistic exhibition piece - does not crawl along the bottom, but goes dry.

The images created by Nadezhda Naydenova seem at first glance extremely simple. However, they add up to shaky, but undoubtedly involving paintings in the dialogue, which most likely do not represent the world, but encourage the viewer to try to equate himself with the unknown.

Nadezhda Naydenova

“I always thought that I had technical brains and no creative principles. But in 2008, when I was seriously interested in photography, an amazing and completely unknown world opened before me. But in any corner of the world there is a place that you want to keep in mind, and the camera is just that tool that makes it possible to save and visually tell about unusual and absolutely amazing places. ”

2008 - graduated from the course for beginner photographers V. Ivanovsky in the Academy of Classical Photography.
2010 - began to get involved in landscape photography. With a camera in her hands, she visited about 20 countries.
2011 - participant of the exhibition "Silver Camera", a series of works "Pigeons."
2012 - participant of the exhibition "Unique Portugal". Finalist of the Golden Turtle photo contest, in the nomination Nature and Man.
2013 - participant of the exhibition “Travel Photography”, organized by the PhotoTravel magazine.
2015 - Honorable Mention nominee for the IPA (New York) international competition in the Fine Art Landscape category.
2017 - personal exhibition "Three Elements" in the "Photo Center on Gogolevsky" (Moscow) and in the Ramensky Museum of History and Art (Ramenskoye). Participation in the exhibition "Winter Patterns" in the "Photo Center on Gogolevsky."