Natasha Navasardian is an artist, photography and designer based in New York. With a background in graphic design and visual storytelling, she creates cinematic, intimate portraits that explore identity, human connection, and the beauty in everyday environments. Her work has spanned editorial, branding, and personal projects, often blending natural light and design sensibilities to capture emotionally resonant images.

Ommage to René Magritte

Photography can be named one of the most popular visual art mediums at the moment. All that fame came to it due to the smartphone invasion that, in a way, made each of us a photographer. However, it does not mean that professionals in the sphere had vanished, the opposite – the existence of this tiny device gave them freedom in terms of not being afraid to combine photography with digital art.

Natasha Navasardian is an artist and photographer based in New York. With a background in graphic design and visual storytelling, she creates cinematic imagery that can be referred to as a new wave of Magical Realism – a branch of the Surrealist movement. Like her historical mentor René Magritte, Navasardian explores the world of the unconscious through creating imagery that includes anything that you cannot see in real life.

Her image Beyond the Glass is a direct reference to Magritte’s series The Human Condition. Like him, Navasardian uses the image of the window as a portal to a virtual environment. Of course, solving such a visual challenge through photography is quite daring but possible. In the image, we see that the artist chooses a red brick wall as an improvised frame and background. Reflection of the sunset in the only window on the wall makes an illusion of a portal to a different reality that is hidden behind the red-brick surface.

According to such imagery that is typical of the artist’s oeuvre, we can conclude that Natasha Navasardian has developed a solid visual language that makes her recognisable. As an art representative of the 21st century, she perfectly understands how to rephrase the heritage of the past to give it a new tone of voice in the present.

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