CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/27/2023

'Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked' opens at Fotografiska New York

What makes the photographs in Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked so special? It’s hard to say. And yet, have a look. Best known for her penetrating, emotionally-charged magazine work, the Russian-born, Munich-based photographer was educated as a clinical psychologist. Only in her thirties, Porodina has produced a body of work that manages to provoke both delight and mystery, curiosity and discomfort. T magazine editor Coco Romack calls Porodina’s work melancholy and eerie. The "twist of beauty’s familiar forms into the uncanny is a trademark for Porodina," Romack writes. Her references include "the collages of the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, as well as the bold colors and ‘sinister messages,’ as she calls them, of Italian giallo horror films." Featured image is "Carolina Herrera IV (Mao), Paris" (2021). Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked is on view at Fotografiska New York January 27 through April 30, 2023.