NATHALIA EDENMONT
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nathalia Edenmont was born in Yalta in 1970, and moved to Sweden by the time she was 20, realizing that life in the Soviet Union was disintegrating and held no future for her. At 27, she was accepted to Forsberg Skola, to study graphic design, where an artist mentor encouraged her to visualize her inner pictures and try to capture them with the camera. She resides in Stockholm.
IMAGERY AND INSPIRATION
All of Nathalia Edenmont’s work derives from her life experience. She says: “I only look inside my head. What I see in my mind is what I create. I do not sketch; the image is complete and sharp within me. I have absolute control over all aspects of what I do.” Using a large format Sinar camera with 8x10 film and many lenses, she composes each shot. She is known for her images of women wearing dresses composed of fruits and flowers, and most recently dresses of golden, green, iridescent pink, blue, shiny, shimmery beetles. In addition to her portraits, Edenmont creates butterfly collages, the fruits of over 500 hours of work each. The collages become “maquettes” for her monumental scale photographs. The large-scale photographs, brilliant in color, are what the artist considers her abstract paintings.