Alisa RESNIK

 

On the night that we leave

After One Another, Alisa Resnik returns to the forefront of the artistic scene in 2021 with the publication by lamaindonne of her latest work, On the night that we leave. With this new photographic series, the artist transports us into a world where night is definitely her territory. Witnessing her nocturnal journeys in colour, the viewer discovers images of rare power, where urban landscapes and lost figures are shrouded in an almost Caravaggesque light.

Alisa Resnik left Leningrad at the age of fourteen for Berlin, a city that had never been hers. The last members of her family left Odessa, her mother’s birthplace, a few years later. Her photographs seem to carry the weight of her history. In them, she attempts to paint a portrait of her native city, of this “old Europe” on the verge of disappearing.

Exhibitions

2020

Low Season

Galerie Leica, Paris

09.10.2020 – 09.01.2021

2019

Low Season

Planches Contact Festival, Deauville

19.10.2019 – 05.01.2020

2017

La notte immensa

Officine Fotografiche, Milan

09.06.2017 – 26.06.2017

Biography

Alisa Resnik was born in 1976 in St Petersburg, Russia and moved to Berlin, Germany, in 1990. After studying art history in Berlin and Bologna, she began taking photographs in 2008. In 2013 Resnik won the European Publishers Award for Photography.          In 2014 she was a finalist of the Oskar Barnack Award. Her book One Another was published simultaneously in five editions (Kehrer Verlag, Actes Sud, Peliti Associati, Dewi Lewis Publishing and Blume).

In 2021 she released her second book On The Night That We Leave with éditions Lamaindonne. 

Her work has been published in Lettre International, International New York Times, Liberation, Die Zeit, die taz, Russian Reporter, Burn Magazine, GUP etc.

She’s been a member of Prospekt Photography Agency since 2009 and a member of TEMPS ZERO collective since 2012.