On March 23, the ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art will launch “Sum of its Parts,” an exhibition by the Vladivostok-based photographer Denis Korobov. The show is conceived of as an installation of 60 photographs of varying size and scale, reflecting the everyday life of Vladivostok. The exhibition will remain on view through April 22. Admission is free of charge.
“I started taking my first shots of the city back in 2014,” Denis Korobov recalls. “These compositions were caught by chance in the camera’s viewfinder, but each wielded a mystical aesthetic, whether it was the specific geometry of a building, the rainbow-tinged film of gasoline in a puddle, or a dead pigeon. As time passed, I came to understand that I was not interested so much by photographs of people, as by images of what they leave behind. These collisions of ideas, textures, geometries – this is what I look around for as I cut circles through the city’s residential districts.”