ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project extending across two decades of

extending across two decades of work made mostly in broad daylight

and of the image-makers that surround us day to day

Russians are once again reclaiming their national self-confidence

Strings of beads

The harsh reality of the past merges seamlessly with moments of rapture that feel plucked from a Grimm fairy tale

ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project extending across two decades ofABOUT: 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