YULIA KOMPANIETS
PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT "INSIDE"
BIOGRAPHY
Yulia Kompaniets (born august 16, 1973) is a Russian-born photographer in the 2nd generation who lives and works in Milan.
Her father is a professional photojournalist in Moscow. Since birth she grown up surrounded by cameras, lenses, photo enlargers, day by day she absorbed this atmosphere observing how images were appearing in the dark room with hardly red light in the thickness of specific smelling solutions. She got a Masters degree in Ecology and began her career in photography at the age of 30 but art has become an obsession and her life since that time.
Yulia experiments with traditional printing techniques and contemporary digital technologies, sometimes mixing them together.
Living in Moscow, she collaborated with other artists and performance groups. As a result of one of such her collaborations with “LOFT IN THE RED ZONE” project and New York-based performance group “AIR HIT AGENCY”, Yulia started her years-long project “EMOTIONS. REFLECTION. INSIDE.” She took some pictures then but modified them later after years already living in Milan by mixing with layers of rusty iron. This project is a series of the abstract style works, the allegory that represents the destructive changes we undergo living in a world of fears. Along with the ambiguity of the subject's gender, the sexless person, it could be either a man or a woman.
Yulia has chosen black and white transparent plexiglass as a material and as the language to express her idea for showing an illusory and fast, permanently changing world we build to live in.
16-27 june
2015
PHOTOFESTIVAL 2015
gallery Pisacane Arte
In December 2014 Yulia graduated ISTITUTO MARANGONI FASHION SCHOOL in Milan as fashion designer. But photography remains her passion. And in february 2015 she created the first part of the art photo project "INSIDE".
