Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

Thames & Hudson, 2024

Having edited Anastasia Samoylova’s previous books FloodZone 2019 and Floridas 2022, my editing work on Adaptation provides a broad introduction to the range of her creative output of the previous few years, showcasing her six major bodies of work: Landscape Sublime, FloodZone, Breakfasts, Floridas, and Paintings & Collages. My extended essay ‘Image Worlds’ draws out the artist’s recurring themes which include the blurred lines between image and reality, the climate crisis and its fraught representation, the tension between natural beauty and urban dysfunction, and the fracturing of daily experience into collage and montage.

With further texts Lucy Sante and Mia Fineman.

Published by Thames & Hudson

187 illustrations
30.5 x 24.5cm
224pp
ISBN 978 0 500 027189

The book subsequently became the accompanying publication for a major exhibition of the same name.