27 Seconds
Curated by Jenia Fridlyand
November 4th, 2021 — January 3rd, 2022
Yana Kononova is a Pirallahi Island (Azerbaijan) born artist. During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, her family emigrated to Ukraine. She was awarded a doctoral degree in 2015, defending the dissertation on Bruno Latour's anthropology of the moderns. After relocating to live on Trachtemyriv Peninsula she turned to photography. Yana graduated from the Photoschool of Viktor Marushchenko (Ukraine) in 2017 and then studied the photography course during the long-term residency programme from Image Threads Collective (USA). She won the Bird in Flight Prize for achievement in photography UkrContempPhoto in Emerging photographer nomination in 2019. Her works have been exhibited in Ukraine and abroad. The artist's practice encompasses research in performative portraiture and development of the idea of landscape informed by a critical involvement in the particularity of the subject being represented; its relationship to broader themes and in regard to the ways in which landscape has been variously conceptualised in theory and the history of visual culture. Her focus of interest is also concerned with a deeper examination of the pastoral, the picturesque, the sublime, the cinematic language.