Le vendredi 13 novembre à 19h se tiendra la première conversation en partenariat avec IN FRAME. Avec comme invitée la photographe Irina Rozovsky pour la sortie de son livre Mountain Black Heart publié par MACK.
An intimate and vivid series of photographs made in and around the Balkan states, including Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which photographer Irina Rozovsky has visited periodically since 2014
These atmospheric images of the region’s inhabitants and wildlife, towns and farms reflect the evolution of old and new ways of life among a naturally dramatic landscape
This absorbing and equivocal study of a changing place follows Rozovsky’s celebrated books In One to Nothing (2009), Island in My Mind (2015), and In Plain Air (2021)
One morning in the summer of 2014, Irina Rozovsky woke up in a Serbian mountain village to the sound of hundreds of trumpets as a brass band festival set up in the hills. At once pleading and tragic, joyful and frenetic, the music set the tone for what would become Rozovsky’s journey through the Balkan region, including Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. Profoundly drawn to the land and its people, Rozovsky created the intimate and equivocal photographs that form Mountain Black Heart. Rozovsky’s borderless vision drifts through railways, farms, open water, parking lots, fairgrounds, and graveyards, balancing vitality and life with suggestions of dark history and subtle signs of violence. Interspersed throughout are striking portraits of people and animals which emanate vulnerability and resilience. Through its loose, expressionistic approach and a compassionate engagement with the human and natural world, Rozovsky’s nomadic project pieces together a personal and kaleidoscopic view of a fragmented place.
IRINA ROZOVSKY (b. 1981, Moscow) is a photographer based in Paris, France and Athens, Georgia, USA. Her solo shows have included ‘Turn the Sun’ at Tureen, Dallas (2024), and ‘Traditions Highway’ at CPM Gallery, Baltimore (2022). Her work has featured in group exhibitions including ‘A Long Arc’, Virginia Museum of Fine Art (2024) and ‘Companion Pieces: New Photography’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020). Previous publications include One to Nothing (2011), Island in My Mind (2015), and In Plain Air (2021). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Philadelphia Museum of Art, and more.
Silkscreen printed hardcover
28 x 32 cm, 132 pages
€65 £55 US$75 AU$135
September 2026
ISBN 978-1-917651-69-1
