Présentation de l'artiste

Julia Khlestkova

Photographer and artist.

Born June 10, 1989. Lives in Korolev, Moscow region.

Education:

In 2024, studied at the Rodchenko School on the course "Project Photography" by Vladislav

Efimov and Alexey Korsi.

In 2024, completed Olga Matveeva's course "Project Presentation Form".

In 2024, completed the courses "Profession of a Photographer from Scratch" and "Modern

Photography for Beginners" at the Photoplay photography school.

In 2012, graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), specializing in "life support

systems engineer".

Participated in the nature photography competition for the Nature Photo Talks festival.

Participated in the Photoplay street awards 2024 street photography competition with her

photos of the Russian North and South Korea.

In 2024, after studying at Olga Matveeva's course "Forms of Project Presentation", she

created and exhibited 2 projects - "Artlife" and "City K", and also published her first printed

book "Artlife. Artists and Their Environment" in a small edition. The book can currently be

viewed in the library of the Garage Museum.

In 2024, after studying at Photoplay, she created her first handmade photo books -

"Korolev", "Notes of a Tattoo Artist" and "Day of Moscow Sports", and also staged and

filmed her first performance "4 Elements". The book "Notes of a Tattoo Artist" is exhibited in

the Perspective space.

Exhibitions:

12/23/24 - Exhibition "Inside out", Moscow, Photoplay school space

11/30/24 - Participation in "photo drying" as part of the Photostrelka festival, Moscow, N.F.

Fedorov Library No. 180.

04/28/2024 – Photoplay students' collective exhibition, Moscow, Photoplay school space.Topics in works: documentary, research projects about creative people or significant

places in life; cultures of the peoples of the world; experiments with combining different

types of art in one work (collages, assemblages, etc.).

Artist statement

The Thing.

The state in which a person exists when he finds himself in a deserted space and immerses himself in the landscape, as in a material enveloping the body, is much easier to convey by shooting on film, as on a physical rather than a digital storage medium. The graininess of the negative mentally refers to the air becoming heavy, changing its state of aggregation to an almost liquid substance. Immersion in nature and meditative merging with it is an attempt to explore reality, breaking it down into layers: from the superficial and transparent to the deep, viscous and subconscious, accessible only to those who know how to look through their inner feelings.