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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Natalya Tikhomirova
In the arms of the void
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Six months ago, I lost a child.
All this time, from that very moment of loss and even now, I have been monitoring my internal substance, fixing my heavy feelings, trying to give them a name, accepting them. Every time I'm feeling pain, It seems to me that i look at myself from the outside.
Many feelings have already become dull, but I still remember how I was feeling when they had left me alone with my fear of emptiness. How my body was physically “empty”, how the veil of anesthesia divided my life into “before” and “after”. How I was shrouded in feelings of despondency, of disability of my own body.
My project is an opportunity to visualize my fears, overcome them, and accept what happened.
About author:
Natalya Tikhomirova
30 years old
A Krasnodar, Russia based artist, who works with photography, collage, sculpture.
Member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers.
The scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture for talented authors.
Since 2019, a student of the Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism “Fotografica”.
All this time, from that very moment of loss and even now, I have been monitoring my internal substance, fixing my heavy feelings, trying to give them a name, accepting them. Every time I'm feeling pain, It seems to me that i look at myself from the outside.
Many feelings have already become dull, but I still remember how I was feeling when they had left me alone with my fear of emptiness. How my body was physically “empty”, how the veil of anesthesia divided my life into “before” and “after”. How I was shrouded in feelings of despondency, of disability of my own body.
My project is an opportunity to visualize my fears, overcome them, and accept what happened.
About author:
Natalya Tikhomirova
30 years old
A Krasnodar, Russia based artist, who works with photography, collage, sculpture.
Member of the Russian Union of Art Photographers.
The scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture for talented authors.
Since 2019, a student of the Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism “Fotografica”.