Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 13 Marseille was one of the only international biennials to take place during the global pandemic COVID-19, the biennial ended earlier than planned due to the second national lockdown
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- j
- m
- n
- o
- p
- r
- s
- w
- z
Sergey Sapozhnikov, RU
Photo © Manifesta 12 / Wolfgang Traeger.
The installation is composed of a series of small Polaroids arranged on a display table at Palazzo Butera, erected among the ruins of Palazzo Costantino, set in the landscape of the Russian countryside, as well as a selection of larger photographic prints. The artist often works with known and recognisable spaces, showing them from unusual and unexpected perspectives. For this series of new images, Sapozhnikov ‘transported’ the interiors of the decaying noble palace located in Palermo so as to photograph them in his birthplace, Rostov-on-Don, creating works that set themselves apart for their exuberant visual vocabulary combining nature, architecture, and landscape.