Think of light-sensitive materials as surfaces with near magical properties.
With such darkroom technique as luminogram, a possibility of trapping light movement and making
direct impressions on photo paper can reveal itself. The cameraless approach is intended to liberate
everyday forms from their usual associations and to create a painting with light. By using various light
sources the artist sets out to practice alternative darkroom techniques that create a challenge
to the doctrine of straight visual representation. This method provides richer insights into the
photographic procedure than shots taken mechanically with a camera. The conditions in which all those
events take place are the primary conditions of photography – conditions of light and time. 
With the luminogram technique, the artist explores the process of crafting a
photographic impression from beginning to end. 

Alternative, and at times, antique processes, abstract - inward looking images - the photographer decisively replaces the humanist documentary with a display of photographs presented as themes or events in themselves. 
The combination of the qualities of the photographic paper and the arranged happenings stimulate the early twentieth-century desire to photographically capture the forces of a metaphysical activity. 

Paper with a Scar

Influenced by the visionary, yet debatable Psychic Researches Behind the Iron Curtain, the artist’s work refers to the suggestive imaginary science. Behind it lies her distrust of an image that is too explicit about its own logic or explains its own metaphor. The main practice of the artist is to catch the alchemy of things within a specific environment and treat them with a sacred allure. 
BODY ELECTRIC is an on-going collection of recording and manipulating plant and human ELECTRIC reactions on photo and Xray film, as well as photo paper. It is achieved by using a high-voltage device and creates special contact-print images that demonstrate the subject matters electric currents and glow. 


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Elvira Akzigitova