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СТРАНА ЧУДЕС - WONDERLAND

June 8 to July 27, 2012
The exhibition will be extended until August 30, 2012

In its „Next Generation“ series Hilaneh von Kories Gallery will present „СТРАНА ЧУДЕС – WONDERLAND“. The exhibit between June 8th and July 27th 2012 features the work of Inessa Dolinskaia.

The Berlin-based photographer has captured fleeting moments of urban life in cities such as Berlin, Moscow and Florence with a rare sense of poetry. Her 48 very personal and lyric black-and-white images offer surprising points of view and have titles like „Berlin pastell“, „Geflüster“ („Whispers“), „Fiktive Heimat“ („Fictional Home“) or „Wunderland“ („Wonderland“).

These images are usually taken at dawn and sunset and intimate a certain regard for trees and plants, buildings and their facades in their urban environment. There is room given to space, there are tight angles and blurry superimpositions, which create a mesmerizing dreamlike emotional world of yearning. Like in her written words:

„...I put on clothes, open the window. It is important not to wake up anybody. Otherwise there will be questions, for which you do not have any answers. / Have you been strolling around Berlin at five o’clock in the morning? / It is truly beautiful. And because I do not want to run I fly./ I love Berlin in the morning, when everybody else is still asleep. And when those few people, who are rushing to work or returning home, don’t look up, which means, most of the time, I am moving in solitude. Proud. Not to mention a few sleepy birds./ I see houses in the rear with dust-covered windows. They mirror a different reality. Roofs with countless antennas, which cast extraterrestrial shadows during the day. But, at this morning hour, they look like sprung from a book of fairy tales. / I like large intersections with winking one-eyed traffic lights, where the only pedestrians are pigeons and sparrows. At dawn the trees feel unwatched and whisper to each other. / A playground. Poached up sandbox, you can feel yesterday’s mood./ The painted sun on asphalt smiles at me. I sit down on a bench and close my eyes. It rings.“

Inessa Dolinskaia was born in the Russian town of Saratov in 1980. She started to work as a free-lance photographer in 2006 and finsished her studies at the Neue Schule für Fotografie (New School for Photography) in Berlin in 2009. Her first exhibits were staged in Berlin, Cologne  and Munich. In 2010 she received the Canon Profifoto Award.

In 2010 Hilaneh von Kories Gallery started the new series of exhibits under the „Next Generation“ banner showcasing a set of young talented photo artists. The first artist on display was Hamburg-based photographer Béatrice Klein. Inessa Dolinskaia's and her „Wonderland“ will be number two.

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