Anastasia Samoylova. Harbour

Intesa Sanpaolo presents, in the prestigious setting of the Galleries of Italy a Turin the exhibition Anastasia Samoylova. Harbour, an extraordinary project commissioned specifically for this occasion, marking the artist’s exhibition debut Russian-American in our country. Drawing inspiration from the work of Germaine Krull, a pioneer of a modern and unconventional visual language, and the teachings of Luigi Ghirri, a renowned innovator in the visual arts, the photographer presents a detailed analysis that explores the profound identity of seven major European port cities: Genoa, Venice, Rotterdam, Marseille, Lisbon, Athens e Istanbul.

The artistic exploration conceives the photography as a tool capable of compressing time and space within a single framework, reflecting the complex evolution of port environments. The ports These therefore emerge as fundamental a crossroads of change, junctions, dynamics e contradictions, poised between past, present and future, between inclusion and exclusion, between wealth and poverty. The images tackle crucial issues of our time, from the’business expansion the challenges associated with the’climate instability, right through to the complexities of the migration flows and the visual saturation of our time.

Staying firmly rooted documentary tradition, the vision of Anastasia Samoylova creates compositions conceptually rigorous and at the same time visually poetic. The work invites us to a’prolonged observation, capable of transcending immediate consumption through a rich layering of gazes and meanings, offering a an intimate and emotional reflection on the urban microcosms of the continent.