Palimpsest

Palimpsest is a fine art portrait series photographed by Vadim Zavatsky for MALVIE Magazine, with model Eliška Macharová.

Palimpsest is a portrait series about dissolution in the search for self. The model is wrapped in hand-painted fabric whose marks continue into the set around her, so she seems both born from her surroundings and slowly consumed by them. The gestural strokes read like writing that can’t be deciphered, a reality authored by someone else.

About Palimpsest

In Palimpsest, Eliška Macharová is wrapped in white fabric covered with black gestural brushstrokes, and the same marks run across the floor and walls around her, so that she seems to grow out of the set and disappear back into it.

Vadim Zavatsky moves from frames where she almost vanishes, lying in the folds or veiled to the eyes, to direct portraits lit against a band of red, the painted cloth drawn up like a hood.

Palimpsest credits

Photographer: Vadim Zavatsky @zavatsky.photo

Model: Eliška Macharová @machrova