{"product_id":"anastasia-samoylova","title":"Anastasia Samoylova","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImage Cities\u003c\/em\u003e takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of 'global interconnectedness.' We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova's photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations  their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography's role in the creation of a gap between these citie's brand identity and their everyday reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA (*1984) grew up in Moscow. In 2008 she moved to the United States, where she graduated with a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Bradley University, Illinois. Her work explores the tension between the staged perception of a bombastic materialism and reality. Living and working in Miami, Florida has become the backdrop for her combination of collage-like details with the genre of the road trip. Her recent series \u003cem\u003eFlood Zones \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eFloridas\u003c\/em\u003e have received great critical acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53936701178194,"sku":"9783775754804","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_9b0e6b30-9218-4777-8463-8142cf0a4024.jpg?v=1783333114","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/anastasia-samoylova","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}