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 University of Pennsylvania
Finding a singular vision through the art of collaboration.
A second-year graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, Milana Braslavsky combined forces with fellow grad student Lissa Corona on a series of still photographs and video installations. “We made work dealing with subjects such as familial relationships, selfperception, and contemporary art in relation to humor,” Braslavsky says of the collaboration, which included the self-portrait of the pair at left.
Both women come to photography with fine-art backgrounds. Braslavsky has a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she majored in painting. Corona studied visual arts at the University of California at San Diego, where she combined work in painting, performance, and sculpture.
“My solo work picks up where the collaboration left off,” says Braslavsky, who served as her own model in the image (cryptically called “The Couple”). “I’ve been experimenting with background colors and strange domestic situations, where figures interact with inanimate objects in a comically absurd yet wistful and nostalgic way.”
The photographs were taken with a six-megapixel digital SLR, then enlarged with Genuine Fractals software to produce prints up to 40x60 inches. To achieve an even greater degree of rendering power, Braslavsky hopes to branch out into medium- and large-format work, “so that I would start out with film and scan it to get a digital file.” Either way, her art is now firmly based in the photographic medium. “I plan to continue to work in photography long after I receive my MFA,” Braslavsky says. “I think the possibilities are endless.”
—Jack Crager
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