Relaxing Chamber by Aleksei Kazantsev

Relaxing Chamber
by Aleksei Kazantsev
dienacht edition

Artist: Aleksei Kazantsev
Photobook: Relaxing Chamber
Publisher: Dienacht Publishing
Specs: Hardcover, 20 x 28 cm, 172 pages

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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 project circles around the human psyche and concerns the archetypal symbolism of animals in collective unconscious memory, altered states of consciousness in trance and hypnosis, and related phenomena such as feelings of euphoria, isolation and dissociation in everyday life.