Anastasia Samoylova explores how we reinvent the natural world
Scrolling through copyright-free image libraries on the internet, Anastasia Samoylova was drawn to the generic shots of some of the world's most beautiful landscapes. She began printing out images of mangroves, glaciers, beaches and forests, folding them into shapes and assembling them into 3D sculptures, which she would then photograph in her Miami studio. She liked the process of turning them from data back into physical objects. The resulting collages will go on show in Samoylova's survey exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery in November, alongside full-colour photographs of her hometown, some taken in the wake of Hurricane Irma in 2017, and shots of advertising billboards from around the world.
