Molecule of consciousness
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PhotographerYana Vasilyeva , Russian Federation
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The social program of limitations can easily erase your individuality,
shaping your brain of thoughts, mentality. Like out of modelling clay
we are being sculptured to something that will subsequently become
our main essence, define that spiritual and moral vector of ours.
Strong pressure of society and public opinion upon the individual is
inadmissible. It can execute and can crown; it hangs up labels by
which our status and place in hierarchy is determined. Each person
knows that pressure.
The work shows stages of one's 'molecule of consciousness' from
birth, freshness, artless mind, pink-fleshed, formation, hunger to
explore - to haziness, asphyxia, degradation, taking away existence
from the person, imposing clichéd and stereotyped views, total
absorption by society with its standards, intoxicating suppression of
individuality. Hypnotized until you are bodiless, walking corpse,
biomass, fed with blackness, emptiness to your very core and soul until
it exudates through every pore.
Born in Krasnodar in 1986. Art photographer also works with land art and installation. In 2009 in her native city, she graduated from the Kuban State University with a Master of Arts in international relations and diplomacy. Vasilyeva is a participant of festivals and exhibitions, including Berlin Foto Biennale, Germany; Festival d'Art Contemporari and Barcelona Foto Biennale, Spain; Head On Photo Festival, Australia, as well as the Young Photographers of Russia and others.
Awards Recipient and finalist of numerous contests, including International Photography Awards, USA; Prix de la Photographie, Paris, France; Fine Art Photography Awards and the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, UK; GoSee Awards, Germany.
