Artist talk
Digital Artist Talk: Fantasies of Leaving by Alena Zabolotina
Fantasies about leaving is an intimate reflection on disappearance, transformation, and the longing to dissolve into nature. With it, I want to explore the boundary between presence and absence, between existing and disappearing.
The project, which has been ongoing from 2022 to 2024, takes shape through several different types of media and materials – photography, photo books, photo films, and textile printing.
At its core, Fantisies of leaving is about letting go of control – about giving up and becoming something beyond oneself. It is a meditation on mortality, on the beauty of disappearing, and on the quiet, inevitable return to the elements from which we once came.
Alena Zabolotina is an artist who uses photography, video, artificial intelligence, and 3D in her practice. Her works explore humanity in the new reality, a reality and a planet threatened by global extinction. Her methods resemble the perspective of human or animal eyes, the camera or a smartphone’s lens, artificial intelligence, lidar, or through a thermal camera. Alena has a master’s degree in World History. Her essay focuses on color in photojournalism during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Alena has exhibited at, among others, the Bronx River Art Center in New York, Karantänen in Helsingborg, and other art institutions. She has also published several photo books.
The digital opening talk will take place on Friday, May 30th at 2:00 PM on Centrum för fotografi’s Instagram.
