ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project Russians are once again reclaiming

Russians are once again reclaiming their national self-confidence

bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021

the central part consists of photographs from contemporary Russia

published jointly by RM and Fundación MAPFRE

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ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project Russians are once again reclaimingABOUT: Relaxing Chamber is a continuously developing series of photographs that revolves around one common theme: the idea of consciousness in humans and animals. The images are motifs of human faces and animal forms, often not immediately recognisable. There are claws and tentacles, thrusting out, stiffened, at rest. And there are people, surrounded by a black void, some seemingly asleep, some in an ecstatic trance, others in contemplation. The