Artist Statement  

 In her photographic projects, Anna Shuvalova explores the interaction between nature and man, their alienation and destruction, as well as the inevitable connection and dependence of man on nature, and nature on man. 

Man strives to subjugate nature and change it in accordance with his needs and desires. However, the changed environment affects man himself, and he changes along with it. 

Then man strives to return back to the bosom of nature, but the changes that have occurred to him do not allow him to become a part of nature: it seems frightening or alien. 

This seesaw of interaction between man and nature has existed for many centuries. Mutual changes lead to alienation and an attempt to return, and this process occurs in a spiral, gradually determining the evolution of both man and the environment. 

At the moment of creating her works, Anna Shuvalova becomes an external observer who neither takes the position of a person, nor becomes part of the external environment. In essence, she occupies an external point and observes the process of dialogue. 

To do this, she turns to the technique of Bruegel, who observed the daily life of people from the outside, and did not become part of the process. 

This approach helps to look objectively at the dialogue between nature and man, where both objects are presented at different moments: sometimes a person observes destroyed nature, and sometimes he himself tries to find a cradle and salvation for himself in it. In different projects, the dialogue between the environment and the shuttle is presented differently. 

In all projects, Anna Shuvalova turns to the female image, since it is considered to be the closest to nature and the natural environment.