"Both the film, which stars the real-life art collector Leonardo DiCaprio as a former leftist militant chasing his kidnapped daughter, and the photo series, debuting at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, centre on a road trip of sorts. While Anderson sends his cast through the California hinterlands, Samoylova journeyed along the old US Route 1 on the East Coast, inspired by a similar trip taken by the photographer Berenice Abbott in 1954."
"Through Samoylova's lens, we discover a country in transition between a grand, decaying past and an uncertain, alarming future. The trappings of Americana litter the show like neglected artefacts of a vanished culture, replaced by new and meaner structures. One shot in Jacksonville shows a concrete highway overpass towering over an aging colonial-style building. Another image shows a woman in a sports car in Miami in front of a demolition site and a prison facility;"
Anastasia Samoylova's Atlantic Coast exhibition and photobook mirror Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another through shared road-trip motifs and atmospheric anxieties. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former leftist militant chasing his kidnapped daughter, while the photo series records journeys along old US Route 1, inspired by Berenice Abbott's 1954 trip. Samoylova's images depict a nation caught between a grand, decaying past and an uncertain future, with neglected Americana replaced by meaner structures. Photographs include a Jacksonville overpass overshadowing a colonial building and a Miami sports-car scene before demolition and a prison. Samoylova's immigrant perspective from late-Soviet Russia informs her documentary-conceptual approach.
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