En la linea del fuego
Geneva-based photographer Anastasia Mityukova has taken an unlikely story and turned it into fiction. In her sights, an international crime-political soap opera: true or false? On the eve of a trip to Cuba with her ECAL class, the young woman, who graduated from the school in 2018, came across an article about alleged acoustic attacks on staff at the US embassy in Havana. “The media were speculating wildly. There were references to a high-performance sonic tool. Others spoke of a conspiracy, supposedly on the part of Russia... In short, it was a dubious story.” The Russian-born artist decided to tell it.
In Cuba, Anastasia Mityukova becomes an investigator. She gathers haphazard clues and constructs her story using the codes of espionage and classic photographic documentary. Original photos, archive footage, hidden and surveillance cameras follow one another. In the end, the true false investigation hijacks the event, undermines the authority of the media and questions the supposed truth of the images. “In my work, I'm mainly interested in fake news, conspiracy theories, hoaxes... I wonder about the way photographic evidence is used, how images provide shared beliefs...
In Cuba, Anastasia Mityukova becomes an investigator. She gathers haphazard clues and constructs her story using the codes of espionage and classic photographic documentary. Original photos, archive footage, hidden and surveillance cameras follow one another. In the end, the true false investigation hijacks the event, undermines the authority of the media and questions the supposed truth of the images. “In my work, I'm mainly interested in fake news, conspiracy theories, hoaxes... I wonder about the way photographic evidence is used, how images provide shared beliefs...
