Laziza Rakhimova
Designing Nature
The infrared invisible light plays a big role in distorting the perspective, “designing nature” by refining all the nature subtleties and drawing the viewer not just look at the image but to be present in it. Similar to rimpa (Japanese painting style), the images are photographed in such away that no item is seen in its entirety, mimicking our visual field when focusing on subjects at close range, wiping the realistic approach to perspective. The show presents my earlier work on Prospect Park and Central Park trees and recent 2022 LMCC residency work at the Art Center on Governors Island in New York where I worked with oysters and marine habitats. In this work,I allude to the fragility of the natural world, its enduring resilience, and the urgency of restoration.
“As a photo-based artist working on the environmental tragedies of contaminated water and climate resilience, I am at the intersection of photography and painting - I paint on the light sensitive paper and I use infrared light in my practice.”
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Prospect Park
Infrared Chromogenic print mounted on acrylic
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Red Ochre
Infrared Chromogenic print mounted on acrylic
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Central Park 1
Infrared Chromogenic print mounted on acrylic
Laziza Rakhimova
Laziza is a New York based visual artist born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). From Central Asia to France, Canada, and the United States, she has crossed borders many times. She graduated from UPEC in Paris where she majored in sustainable development. Laziza completed her photography education at Dawson College, Montreal majoring in photography and at ICP, New York. Laziza’s artistic approach alters the reality of nature and addresses environmental tragedies. She has recently worked on projects dealing with water contamination, NY harbor's resiliency, climate and biodiversity through interaction with nature. The environmental justice has been an underlying theme in her recent projects “Ode to Gowanus” and “Radiating Heat” where she created unique local imprints of the environment. Laziza creates camera less textural three-dimensional immersive prints of New York waterway and environment by interaction with material sensitive to light. Using the infrared spectrum of light she alludes to the amorphous threat of radiating heat. Her work is held in private and institutional collections and she has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions and outdoor installations, includingUnited Nations, Rockefeller Center, Soho Photo, Silver Art, Salmagundi Club in New York, Chashama, Foley Gallery, Upstream Gallery, Williamsburg ArtCenter, BWAC, among others.