ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Work from the project "Null Island" and from the series "Null Matter" this series is the primary basis, an attempt to find the maximum zero point of reference for the birth of the world. All works from the project are made using a cameraless method of obtaining an image - a photogram. With the help of a photogram, it is possible to obtain an image of non-existent objects and items, fixing only the shadow, the image is drawn with light, which makes it possible to create something new, something that does not exist in reality and on the surface of the paper.
Silver-gelatin print, photogram ( camera less obtaining an image).
The project "Null Island" includes several independent photographic series exploring "zero" not as a number, but as a metaphor for the end or the beginning, a starting point for something new, the project also infects the philosophical category of nothing - recording the absence, non-existence of a certain entity, or the denial of being in general. All the series within the project explore different aspects of the nature of "zero" and the philosophical interpretation of this entity in visual images. Something is happening in the world endlessly - political conflicts, wars, epidemics, natural disasters, my project is a kind of attempt to internally reset to zero, renew myself, leave the reality of existence and find myself outside the world, starting a new existence. Everything begins with zero and everything ends with it.

AUTHOR
Anna Melnikova is a graphic designer, artist, art photographer, associate
professor, master of art history.
She was born on June 14, 1986, Belarus.
In 2011 she graduated from the Department of Graphic Design of the
Belarusian State Academy of Arts. In 2012 she graduated from the Belarusian
State Academy of Arts with a degree in Art History. In 2015, she completed her
postgraduate studies at the Academy of Arts with a degree in Design and Technical
Aesthetics and received a scientific qualification as a "researcher" in the field of
fine arts.
Associate Professor of the Department of Graphic Design of the Belarusian
State Academy of Arts from 2011 to 2022, Minsk (Belarus). From 2018 to 2020
she was the Acting Head of the Graphic Design Department of the Belarusian State
Academy of Arts. Since 2022, she is the chairman of the graphic design and
photography section of the "Belarusian Union of Artists".
Creatively works in the field of graphics, art photography (the main activity
is focused on experimental and alternative photography and old manual techniques
for printing photographic images).
Participant of more than 100 republican and international exhibitions and
projects, including 8 personal exhibitions (one personal exhibition was held in
Barcelona, four personal exhibitions were held in Italy, two of which were in
Rome and three solo exhibitions in Belarus).
Laureate and finalist of national and international competitions and projects.
Works are in private collections of Belarus, Italy, France, Great Britain, Czech
Republic, Spain.
Member of the graphic design section of the "Belarusian Union of Artists"
since 2015. Chairman of the graphic design section of the "Belarusian Union of
Artists" since 2022.
Member of the alternative photography association Gruppo Rodolfo Namias
(GRN). Parma, Italy.

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