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GALINA MANIKOVA

Lives and works in Horten, Norway
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Galina Manikova’s art begins with a fundamental understanding of Manikova is the least political, the most concerned with exploring individual
photography’s rootless, hovering nature. She does not believe one can look at identity, the most “expressionist,” a tendency that Pop artists thought
a photograph, but rather one must look through it, into it, beyond it, always with photography would eliminate in favor of facts. Each of her projects can be
the possibility of seeing something more, of discovering oneself superimposed looked at as an attempt to create metaphors for experience using photography.
on the world. One of her favorite devices is to print a photograph on plastic or In her work, the photographic image becomes the reference point for what
glass then hang it in a window, where it can alter the view of the outside - and is common to us all, the meeting point of artist and audience. Manikova, the
for those on the other side of the window, of the inside. Other artists genuinely reluctant Norwegian, the Russian outsider, knows that a portrait cannot be
sought to add to photography’s resonance. They recognized that a photograph coaxed from reality but first must be imagined, then evoked. I am thinking of
acquires meaning not just from its subject but from its framing, process, and many of her installations, but particularly “Climax Values” (2000) a painful and
deployment. They intervened at all four levels. This is the task Manikova has inclusive exhibition. Its rooms contained mirrors, photos on glass, videos, light,
taken up, and she is in brilliant company, with Argentina’s Graciela Sacco and shadows, projected text - the sum total of woman’s psychic life at a moment of
France’s Christian Boltanski, among the most notable. These artists are not raw reflection. And that sum total of identity included the visitors who found
photographers per se. For them photography represents a way of making themselves washed by her images. To display the evidence of things unseen
images that can be marshaled in a broader investigation of reality. Of the three, requires transgressing the boundaries of photography. [ Moving Pictures ]

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