Anastasia Samoylova (American, born Russia, 1984), Venus Mirror, 2024 © Anastasia Samoylova

Featuring work by Walker Evans in dialogue with contemporary photographs by Anastasia Samoylova, the exhibition will feature over 70 objects exploring how the two artists sought to understand the state’s complexity and contradictions.

A popular tourist destination since the early 20th century, Florida is a place where fantasy and reality collide.  Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans, is an exhibition bringing together photographs and paintings of Florida by Anastasia Samoylova (born 1984), a Russian-American photographer based in Miami, and Walker Evans (1903–1975), an influential originator of American documentary-style photography. By juxtaposing two bodies of work depicting the same geographical area during different historical periods, the show will highlight the continuities and discontinuities in Florida’s natural, cultural, and political landscape.

In 2016, decades after Evans’s engagement with Florida, Samoylova began photographing the state, finding inspiration in Evans’s exploration of visual surfaces and the shifting play between image and reality. Her vibrant photographs and mixed-media collages temper the shimmering seductions of the Sunshine State with an awareness of the troubling consequences of climate change, gentrification, and political extremism.

“Following the footsteps of documentarians before me, my work examines Florida through my perspective as an insider-outsider and a woman on the road,” said Anastasia Samoylova. “I hope that my photographs contribute meaningfully to the ongoing conversation about what it means to be American.”

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