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Israel Series / © Tim Parshikov |
This exhibition, the result of Tim Parshikov’s visual exploration as
photographer, cameraman and filmmaker, brings together work created in
European and Russian cities over the last three years.
In cinema suspense denotes unresolved conflict, an undecided outcome,
the accumulation of vague and inexplicable anxiety. This device arose in the
years after the last war, almost immediately acquiring a new interpretation in
the second wave of European existentialism and ideally defining the
uncontrollable melancholy that descended on the post-war world.
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distinct from cinematography, where apprehension grips the audience in
precise doses and at the director’s bidding, in real life involuntary trepidation
proved to be irrepressible and overwhelming. In modern times this
primordial human trait is intensified and nurtured by mass media essentially
fixated on catastrophe. Information services have globalised the space we
inhabit and erased internal boundaries, but with an ultimately alienating
effect: our unease has become isolation and vulnerability of the individual
when faced by the unknown.
The photographer is obliged to traverse space – visually, not physically –
and in this sense, as a traveller, he is more unprotected than the rest of us.
An equally unpredictable feeling of suspense may overtake him on a
deserted embankment in Istanbul, or in the middle of a crowded square in
Naples. Photography becomes a shield that protects him from stupefaction
and reconciles him with uncertainty. Parshikov tries to record the confusion
that occurs as our delicate inner equilibrium teeters on the brink of collapse.
The photographer’s personal aesthetic experience exposes the nervous
turmoil of the situation, documents its unresolved state.
Parshikov often conveys anxiety by the twilight dramaturgy of acid-coloured
lighting in which invisible, indiscernible or off-frame factors are as important
as the content of the shot. His ability to counterbalance the static and
dynamic in photography is based on a superb understanding of
cinematography. He produces an exquisite play of colour, nuances of
shadow and contrast, striving to approach the visual prototype of his quest –
the ‘film noir’ of the 1940s and ‘neo-noir’ of the 1970s.
Tim Parshikov chose the cinema auditorium, a key image very close to him,
to exhibit the project: his work is displayed in a darkened space and
lightboxes with photographs that alternately flick on and off are transformed
into an individual deconstructed screen. The vacillating flicker of objects in
the dark hall is emphasised by a soundtrack. Background noise that
ordinarily remains unnoticed is actualised at a moment of unease, filling our
perceptual field.
In Tim Parshikov’s work suspense penetrates the natural environment, the
urban space, populating it with his characters.
 diChroma photography
This exhibition is organized by diChroma photography,
Paseo de los Parques, 27-8B 28109 Alcobendas-Madrid-Spain
www.dichroma-photography.com |
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Number of photographs: 45 color photographs, mounted video projection.
Frame sizes:
120x180cm
Rental conditions:
-The transport from and to Moscow is
covered by the lender.
-The borrower will have to cover:
- Flights for the author from Moscow
and a representative from Madrid.
-The exhibition is on loan. The
borrower is expected to purchase a
photograph for its collection.
Value: 3.500€ |
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