START opens a new season at WINZAVOD with a new curator Ivan Isaev. The project evokes and becomes more open continuing to follow its aims of discovering new young talants and development of Russian culture situation in the regions. START activities will be connected to direct work with artists, public events where young authors will be able to dialogue with the audience, and involving local art scene.

The exhibition "Inner geography. Layers of Memory ", Katya Garkushko

What is the essence of the photography in the time of media overproduction? What is the aim of obsessive attempts to fix the past? Taking as a basis personal experience Kate Garkushko is looking for the answers for these questions by means of phenomenology of human memory.

The latest technologies allow to accumulate thousands of photos during the life. This file is within us. This picture archive repeating our life way is inside our existence. Having recourse to these photos we try make sure that we are equal to ourselves, that we still exist. We can choose the main points that will become basis of self-perception. Our own archive becomes a place for research where reality is hidden layer-by-layer.

Katya Garkushko about the exhibition: "The past is homogeneous. In order to remember exact day or event I just have to see the photo taken that day. That’s when image becomes clear, restored in the memory, and I can say it was for sure. "

Katya Garkushko was born in 1984 in Vorkuta. She graduated from Vyatka State University (art processing materials) and Institute of Contemporary Art (New Artistic Strategies). Participant of group exhibitions.