Black Summer, 2023.
EXHIBITION
The Springbrook exhibition at Arka gallery in Vladivostok is the art project I made with a photographer Alexey Korotkov. I worked with his photographs taken during a creative trip to the Australian Springbrook National Park during the bushfires in the winter of 2019-2020. These fires are considered to be the most destructive in the entire history of observations. Alexey and I comprehend the fragility and majesty of tropical nature and offer a meditative look at events that are beyond human control.
Mickey’s House, 2023
Dreamy land, 2023
Telephone Booth, 2023
Fireworks, 2023
PHOTOGRAPHER
In his work on the photographs, Alexey was interested in the phenomenon of place, the topographic recording of the environment at the current moment in time. There are no people in the pictures, but there are traces of human activity, houses, buildings, abandoned household items. Analogue photographs, digitally printed on fabric, acquire a new sound through collaboration with me, when I transform the content, texture and visual structure.
You Cannot Make My Art Mute, 2023
BLEACHING TEXTILES
Burnt silhouettes of plants and grasses appear in photographs, and streaks of bleach flow down onto landscapes of a tropical forest, forming cascades of new visual intersections, waterfalls and trees mix as if on a palette with pieces of fabric and veins of leaves. A new, more complex and non-obvious unified imagery and symbiosis of two views of the world around us is born.
Poetry
Poetry on textile
I know so little
But I care so much
I love Her as
She is me and more
I love Him
As I know
He is Her
Analogue photography has always been a major source of inspiration for me, and I am very happy that I was able to implement this project in textiles! I hope this is only the beginning of our many upcoming experiments and collaborations with Alexey.
Special thanks to Veronika Staheeva for the photographs from the opening of the exhibition:
