Anastasia Mityukova


Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain?

“Have You Ever Seen an Iceberg in the Rain? is a series produced by the artist during her residency in Greenland. Mityukova’s work deals with photographic ambiguity, that is, the fact that on the one hand we automatically treat photography as evidence, while on the other we regard it with great suspicion. Exploiting this tension, she presents photographs made as visualnotes during her residency, where she photographed the details of her environment. The words associated with the images comment, criticize and poeticize her environments, opening new perspectives of interpretation to her own view of the Arctic landscape. They also confront an imagination nourished by countless popular cultural productions with a reality on the ground that she likes to describe as «photographic disappointement».”