Alina Gozin'a | Monkey Business

Alina Gozin'a

Monkey Business

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Surrounded by crumpled pages, unanswered telephones and the remnants of a long creative night, filmmaker Luke Doolan sits at the centre of a carefully orchestrated disorder. Beside him, a chimpanzee works at a typewriter - an absurd yet strangely purposeful collaborator within this theatrical portrait of artistic ambition.

In Monkey Business, Alina Gozin’a draws upon the Infinite Monkey Theorem: the proposition that a monkey striking keys at random for an infinite length of time would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Reimagined within the Australian film industry, the idea becomes a wry reflection on creativity, chance and the unpredictable process through which an idea becomes a finished work.

Gozin’a transforms Doolan’s creative world into a cinematic tableau, balancing meticulous composition with humour and surreal invention. Beneath its playfulness lies a portrait of the artist at work - caught between inspiration and frustration, discipline and chaos, waiting for something extraordinary to emerge. The work was selected for the National Photographic Portrait Prize and received the Gold Award from the London Photographic Association.

Artist Alina Gozin'a
Title Monkey Business
Editions

Museum Edition | Edition of 3 + 1 AP | 185 H x 130 L cm

Gallery Edition  | Edition of 3 + 1 AP | 165 H x 110 L cm

Collectors Edition | Luminous Optical Illusion Frame | Edition of 9 + 1 AP | 100 H x 70 L cm
Medium

Fine-art photography paper
Additional Details Signed and numbered by artist


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Alina Gozin'a

Sydney-based artist Alina Gozin’a has developed an international, transdisciplinary practice spanning fine-art photography, luminous optical works and eroded brass photographic plates. Informed by a life lived across Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Hamburg, her work explores identity, belonging and the historical forces that shape individuals and communities.

Looking to the past as a way of understanding the present, Gozin’a connects intimate human narratives with broader civic and cultural histories. Her work has been exhibited in Sydney and New York, recognised by the National Portrait Gallery, Head On Photo Festival, Art & About Sydney and the London Photographic Association, and is held in distinguished private and corporate collections.

Her acclaimed New York series The Doormen of New York offered an intimate portrait of the men entrusted with the secrets of the city’s residents, while paying homage to New York’s immigrant foundations. For the past decade, Gozin’a has developed Confessions of the Heart (2016–2026), a four-part photographic essay created across New York and Sydney. The cycle culminates in Sydney Love Stories: 50 documentary-style portraits accompanied by handwritten confessions of love, to be presented as a public exhibition at Muru Giligi, 1 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Gozin’a has twice been appointed an inaugural Artist in Residence—at Time & Place and, most recently, The Sandstones Club. Beyond the studio, she serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the UTS TD School and presents The Art of Seeing, her acclaimed keynote examining creative intelligence in an increasingly AI-driven world. Her practice is united by a belief in art as a way of seeing more deeply: creating connection, preserving memory and revealing the human stories held beneath the surface.

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