Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation
Collector’s Edition

The career-spanning monograph of trailblazing photographer Anastasia Samoylova, a vital meditation on environmentalism, consumer culture, and our disorientating times.

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Having come of age in post-Soviet Russia, before later moving to America, Anastasia Samoylova developed a long-standing fascination with the economy of images. Intrigued by the relationship between reality and its pictorial representations, Adaptation unites six of the artist’s most engaging series and is a testament to Samoylova’s expansive, inquisitive gaze.

Samoylova deftly fuses these themes through her masterful interpretation of colour, bringing that which might otherwise pass by unnoticed to the forefront of the page. Revealing the drama and absurdity of the everyday while weaving together strands of Constructivism, Cubism, Pop, and Modernism, Samoylova’s arresting colour palettes transform floating couches, towering billboards, and dilapidated roads into images both alluring and menacing.

Specification

305 × 245mm
224 pages
Hardcover

Signed and numbered print

Text paper 157gsm OJI Zunma matt art paper
Case bound and covered in real cloth
Frontboard blocked in pink foil

Clamshell covered in real cloth
Blind debossed lid
Ribbon pull

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The Book

Available only on Volume, this limited collector’s edition features an exclusive signed and numbered print, housed within a cloth-covered clamshell box with magnetic closure.

Edited by David Campany and accompanied by texts from writer and critic Lucy Sante and Mia Fineman, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Adaptation is not only a necessary introduction to Anastasia Samoylova, but an essential meditation on contemporary life.

Samoylova’s photography offers a unique perspective – simultaneously outsider and insider. As both a foreigner and a participant, she is uniquely positioned to observe and highlight the most disorienting and absurd aspects of her surroundings.

Taous Dahmani

The Print

Each 14 x 11 inches limited-edition print is individually numbered and signed on the back by Anastasia Samoylova. Conveying the artist’s singular ability to conjure new worlds through light and colour, this evocative print alludes to the unstable nature of reality. The print is secured in a 3mm board portfolio, lined with pre-dyed Fedrigoni paper for enhanced protection.

Supplied by the artist.

For her exquisite sensibility, for her profound attention to colour and form and light and balance, for the way she somehow manages to find joy and humour in the grimmest of our realities, Anastasia Samoylova is my favourite of all contemporary photographers. I believe she is an artist that the humans of the future will study to make sense of what it means to live in our absurd, delicious, devastating, insane era.

Lauren Groff

Few artists of our time have a sensibility like Samoylova. She sees in the ordinary world the visual cues to reflect on what affects us all and translating it into solid and attractive photographic projects.

Rica Cerbarano

Meet the author

Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984) is a Russian-born American artist and photographer. Moving between observational photography, studio practice, and installation, her work explores environmentalism, consumerism, and twenty-first century media culture. Recent exhibitions venues include C/O Berlin, Fundación MAPFRE, Chrysler Museum of Art, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

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Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation Collector’s Edition