graphics/drawing , pictorial art , installation , sculpture/object , video art
Project turned to topic of memory: who we cross out and who we always remember. What does it mean to forget or remember at level of particular person, family, humanity. Exhibition encourages a viewer to conduct memory audit: remember or say goodbye.
Ordinary random people who fall out of memory of their environment. Artwork was created under impression of archival photos made in Stalin's time, when, according to official decree, faces and any mentions of repressed people were stretched
This is how memory is melting away. Memory about people, who disappeared from our lives: classmates, past love, former colleagues. These people are leaving us almost without a trace.
Genogram is a schematic representation of family. Over time, memory of older generations is erased, and someone in the family is deliberately forgotten.
This's a signature on old photo cards that people gave each other. "Animated photos" depicts people whose lives were accidentally or on purpose erased from family memory. Photo are taken from the family archive.
Gypsum boards with poems by Marina Tsvetaeva as a continuation of the discussion about what is more important – to be the one they remember, or go unnoticed.
Memory is selective. Sometimes it leaves only minor details about a person and erase something important. Sometimes memory leaves only a shadow or vague feeling.
The viewer is invited to feel what it means to be crossed out of the memory. Is it true that a person lives as long as he is remembered? Does erasing from memory mean to erasing from life?
At the end of the exhibition, each viewer can take a note and put a comma – as a subjective answer to the questions posed by the exhibition.
