The ©raw.image Archive presents a series of staged photographs based on the simulation of absurd stock imagery. At the center of each frame is a mannequin head, serving as a universal signifier of humanity. Through scenes of care, submission, violence, or worship, the project addresses the idea of social hierarchy—which shapes social relationships while simultaneously existing as an internal structure of human thought.
A dual exhibition in the garage halls of the «Kornei» gallery. We recreated the format of a garage sale, exaggerating the reproducible logic of stock photography.
Stock photography functions here as a form of collective visual archive, wherein cultural behavioral models are fixed. Devoid of dramatic pathos, these images illustrate how power dynamics are continuously reproduced in everyday life, and how the distinctions between the dominant and the subordinate prove to be conditional—since every participant in this system ultimately reduces to the same universal image of humanity.
At the center of all the photographs is a mannequin head, serving as a neutral human figure that transforms plots of interpersonal relationships among characters into more universal social interactions.
Vernissage
Artists: Elizaveta Neustroeva Ekaterina Bolotova
Photographers: xxtuha Elizaveta Alenicheva
June 14–16 Korney Gallery
Reception Area
Mediation