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Serzhant Anna
This photo series was created in the autumn of 2024, during a period of chronic sleeplessness, physical and emotional exhaustion — as an involuntary attempt to capture this amorphous state.
Insomnia is a familiar companion of emotionally turbulent times, its blurred trace lingering in the bedroom as an almost tangible aura of restlessness. It materializes in the image of a dancing, naked entity — blurred and unstable — erasing the boundaries between inner and outer anxiety, between the sounds outside the window and the thoughts in one’s head, between body and space, between yesterday and tomorrow.
Born in 1993 in Kyiv. In 2015, she received a Bachelor’s degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in Book Graphics.
She works primarily with analog photography and teaches, organizing life drawing sessions.
She has participated in group exhibitions and projects, including Pavlo Makov’s course at Izolyatsia, the One Photography Festival (Poznań, Poland), and the group exhibition of analog photography on the theme of war “Loud and Extremely Close” by Film Speed Lab (Berlin), featuring a series of photographs taken in the de-occupied Chernihiv region during volunteer work with Repair Together.
In recent years, she has been developing a film-based series exploring corporeality, with her practice focusing on femininity through nudity and connection with nature, layering mythological imagery in different contexts, and portraying emotional states.