ELVIRA AKZIGITOVA/ BODY ELECTRIC / CAT / exhibition within the artist residence

Driven by pure curiosity, BODY ELECTRIC is a series of visual poetic fragments and electro-photography observations of plants from Ustka and the surrounding area. It is an attempt to capture the vibrations of the place and clarify its existence through human drama. The photographic series presents an alchemy that can be found in predictable situations. 

In a place where an enchanting pine forest borders civilization, it is a competition for light in a pursuit of survival.

Elvira Akzigitova (1988) is an analogue visual artist from the ex-Soviet cement suburbia in Estonia.

Photography is her way of dealing with a shifting and fragmented environment. Her work uncovers the bond between form and content, as well as the ambivalence between intension and chance.

After many years of working with digital formats, she came back to the cracks and crunches of film and non-traditional darkroom processes. She chooses in-depth and pure methods of visualisation, as opposed to cold digital detachment. Elvira is a graduate of Arts and Humanities(CCCU, UK), currently working in Berlin.