Based in St. Petersburg, Russia
Irina Zadorozhnaia is a cross-disciplinary artist whose practice includes CG, animation, spatial visualizations, video and photography. Her artistic practice appeals to a possible interaction between real, virtual and hypothetical.
What defines the human/inhuman/nonhuman in the epoch of digital technologies when the latter provokes constant redetermination of the possible and the real. This case is not a simple dichotomy, but the search for a space where something ends and another thing begins. Detection of the relations between models ’describing our feelings’ and innovations.
EDUCATION:
2013-2015 FotoDepartament.Institute (St. Petersburg, RU)
2003 National Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Department of acting and directing (Kiev, UA)
EXHIBITIONS:
2018 «Here I live», Mediacongress, The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU)
2018 «Uncommon Natures» as a part of «Brighton Digital Festival» (Brighton, UK)
2018 «Lumen exhibition» (London, UK)
2017 «Journey to Jess» within the festival of contemporary photography «Presence II» «Berthold Centre» (St. Petersburg, RU)
2017 «Relapse of Private» /National Centre of Contemporary Arts (Moscow, RU)
2017 Art Fair Suomi (FI)
2017 The presentation of the project «Journey to Jess» within the discussion «We are dealing with the image», Garage Museum (Moscow, RU)
2016 «Peach garden. Installation» within the festival of contemporary photography «Presence» (St. Petersburg, RU)
2016 Cosmoscow Art Fair (Moscow, RU)
2016 «Machine. Evidences» as part of «Photoparade in Uglich» (Uglich, RU)
2015 «The Observer Effect» (Stockholm, SE)
2015 «The Observer Effect», the project presented at «Experiences of Brownian Motion» in The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography (Moscow, RU)
2015 «Construction. Photography in search of approach» as part of «Photoparade in Uglich» (Uglich, RU)
2015 «The Photobook Show» at Athens Photo Festival ’15 (Benaki Museum, Athen, GR)
2014 Personal ‘The drill charted a point and bore a hole. Input/output. Where is the creature: inside or outside?’ (St. Petersburg, RU)
2014 «Sam Izdam» (Novosibirsk, RU)
2014 «Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair» (Krasnoyarsk, RU)
2014 «Photobook Week Aarhus» (Aarhus, DK)
2014 «Institute.Production» (Kazan, RU)
2014 «I’mpressed» (St. Petersburg, RU)
BOOKS:
2017 «Machine» within the project "Amplitude №1"
2016 «Machine»
2015 «The Observer Effect» dummy
2014 «The drill charted a point and bore a hole. Input/output. Where is the creature: inside or outside?»
AWARDS:
2018 Sentimentality for Jess takes Brighton Audience Award
2018 Sentimentality for Jess shortlistead at Lumen Prize 2018
2017 «Machine» within the project "Amplitude №1" has been shortlisted for Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2017
2016 «Machine» has been shortlisted for 2016 Gomma Grant
2015 «The Observer Effect» has been shortlisted for 2015 Unseen Dummy Award (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2015 «The Observer Effect» has been shortlisted for Spine Dummy Award 2015 (Stockholm, Sweden)
PUBLICATIONS:
2019 Photograph, January-February issue
2018 Twisting Pixels, September
2018 Colinpantal.blog, January
2018 BJP #7867: Cool + Noteworthy in 2017, January
2018 Conscientious Photography Magazine, 01 January
2017 British Journal of Photography, 3 November
2017 British Journal of Photography, 6 November
2017 British Journal of Photography, 3 November
2017 Feature Shoot, 10 October
2017 FK magazine, photo story, 28 September
2017 The Calvert Journal, 26 July
2017 Syg.ma, 22 February
2016 YET magazine, #10, November
2016 Inside Art magazine, #107, November
2016 FK magazine, photo story, 20 October
2016 Colta.ru, invterview, 8 April
2016 YET Magazine, invterview, 3 April
2015 IKONA Magazine, invterview, 8 November
2015 Photographer.Ru, review on project "The Observer Effect", 27 November
2015 Bleek Magazine, interview, 30 October
2014 AroundArt.ru, review, 19 November
2014 F. magazine, interview, 20 September
