ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project The harsh reality of the

The harsh reality of the past merges seamlessly with moments of rapture that feel plucked from a Grimm fairy tale

Sohier illuminates the subtleties of human behavior and ordinary life

bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021

published jointly by RM and Fundación MAPFRE

as well as writings by Tanikawa Shuntarō

ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV: RELAXING CHAMBER long term project The harsh reality of theABOUT: Relaxing Chamber is a continuously developing series of photographs that revolves around one common theme: the idea of consciousness in humans and animals. The images are motifs of human faces and animal forms, often not immediately recognisable. There are claws and tentacles, thrusting out, stiffened, at rest. And there are people, surrounded by a black void, some seemingly asleep, some in an ecstatic trance, others in contemplation. The