Photography
#Maria Svarbova
#reflection
#swimming
![A symmetrical photograph of swimmers sitting beside a swimming pool.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/svarbova-2.jpg)
All photographs © Maria Svarbova, shared with permission
Perched alongside the sides of swimming swimming pools or bobbing simply above the water’s floor, the themes of Maria Svarbova‘s pictures enliven the interiors of classic swimming swimming pools. Focusing totally on Soviet-era structure (previously), the artist fastidiously composes figures sporting bathing fits and caps inside the colorfully tiled, cavernous areas. Digitally manipulated to intensify repetition and exact symmetry, the figures align completely as if frozen within the second simply earlier than diving in.
Svarbova typically captures a temper of detachment by the expressionless faces of her topics and an aqueous shade palette, blurring the excellence between the previous, current, and future. Routine actions “are reframed with a visible purity that’s soothing and symmetrical and at occasions reverberant with an ethereal stillness,” reads an announcement. “The general impact evokes a contemplative silence in an prolonged second of promise and consciousness—a top quality tough to attain within the speedy tempo of up to date life.”
Discover extra work on Svarbova’s website, Behance, and Instagram.
#Maria Svarbova
#reflection
#swimming
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