The ma­jor­ity of Maria Sni­girevskaya’s works are fo­cused on the study­ing of light. The artist uses light and shade in a mas­terly fash­ion to cre­ate dy­namic con­struc­tivist-like com­po­si­tions with sev­eral con­cep­tual points which re­veal to the view­ers the every­day life in its spon­tane­ity and sen­sual vul­ner­a­bil­ity. Sni­girevskaya ap­plies this ap­proach to the whole range of her work, and thus has man­aged to cre­ate a uni­fied, co­he­sive and co­her­ent col­lec­tion of pho­tographs which com­bine both ra­tio­nal and sen­sual as­pects.

A unique knowl­edge of nu­ances of light, per­fectly arranged com­po­si­tions and flaw­less print­ing tech­nique mark her works out from the Saint Pe­ters­burg-based artists of this pe­riod.

The dis­play com­prises over 120 still life, cityscape and por­trait pho­tographs.