"The bloom" (2019) is a portrayal of excessive blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) growth in Berlin lake Stößensee. These photographs were taken during one of the hottest summers in Berlin - in the year of 2018. When temperature in lakes rises, blue-green algae thrives, thus becoming toxic to the environment.
This imagery, illuminated with a source of light from beneath the water's surface, exposes not only a striking beauty of algal bloom, but it also resembles nearly apocalyptic scenario of the alienated environment. 

"The bloom"

Series “A beam of light for boundary sight” (2016-2019) investigates a separation and alienation of a space by placing a source of light above and below water’s surface. Water is about 800 times denser than air. It slows the speed of light and bends its rays. This so called refraction effect draws a boundary between 2 completely different worlds: the space we live in and the space underwater, which is so foreign to our survival. As a result images appear quite mysterious, in some cases even synthetic or unreal, this way shedding light upon transcendent presence of the world around us, also raising questions about the nature of the forbidden (taboo, transgression) and about the aesthetics of liminality.

A beam of light for boundary sight

These photographs are generic and stereotypical images taken from pornographic websites. Manipulation of these images try to emphasize main erotic content by blurring backgrounds. 
The result is more abstract landscapes, where the erotic content is actually moved to the foreground and is released from the pornographic content.

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Julija Goyd