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Agafia Polynchuk is a Berlin-based photo artist. She was born in 1988 in Leningrad. In 2010 she bought her SX-70 camera and took her very first polaroid. She has been taking polaroids ever since.
Agafia's self-portraits visualize personal feeling and memory, but they are equally steeped in nature, classical art, and the art of the commonplace. The immediacy and intimacy of the polaroid brings these timely and timeless subjects together.
Agafia's work has been exhibited all over the world and has been featured in projects such as 12.12, Bonjourpola, Raw Beauties, Expolaroid and Poladarium. Her photographs have appeared in magazines such as Shots, Das Magazin, and others.
Agafia's latest book, Polaroids, was published by edition GALERIE VEVAIS alongside a limited selection of prints by VEVAIS KUNSTFABRIK, each numbered giclée print signed by the artist and presented in a handmade folder.
In his introduction to Polaroids, photography critic and historian John Wood writes: ''Come into these rooms with me, into Agafia's mysterious and beautifully crafted days — days like no others you have ever witnessed. Look all around ... Eden was dead ground, a stagnant garden as poisonous as Rappaccini's garden in Hawthorne's well-known short story ... For life to be vibrant it has to have some pain, some distress, some angst; otherwise how would we know we were really alive? Agascha's radiant rooms may all be ashimmer, but the shimmer may at times have an unnerving cast. Not evil, but certainly the knowledge of it."
Edition GALERIE VEVAIS, the award-winning German publishing house, will begin offering art works from the artists whose books it publishes. KUNSTFABRIK will make great art available to everyone at sensible prices. We offer Pigment Prints, signed by the artists, printed on the finest Hahnemühle papers, in three different sizes (paper size, not the image itself), and at affordable prices:
20 x 30 cm for 110 EUR
(+shipment: 7,90 EUR (Germany) / 14,90 EUR (Europe) / 21,90 EUR (World)
30 x 40 cm for 190 EUR
(+shipment: 9,90 EUR (Germany) / 18,90 EUR (Europe) / 38,90 EUR (World)
40 x 60cm for 300 EUR
(+shipment: 10,90 EUR (Germany) / 19,90 EUR (Europe) / 39,90 EUR (World)
We also offer them mounted on Aluminium under matte acrylic glass. Send us your request: service(at)galerievevais.de
