“Dialogue about an Authentic Place”
Project, 2024Curator: Elizaveta Fadeeva
The project explores transformation and the passage of time through the metaphor of movement. By combining static, two-dimensional prints depicting the façades of an abandoned house with moving video images of what happens behind its forgotten windows, the artist reflects on how a place forgotten by people can acquire new stories through the eyes of passers-by, or be washed away and forgotten with time — a force that can shape the context of a landscape and a space, sometimes more strongly than human presence.
The prints in this series reflect the states of a place in memory. They use variations of a filled-in silhouette of the house, as well as openings in a wall through which it can be seen. These variations leave the house’s status uncertain: in some works it is only an empty trace, while in others it appears more clearly. In one variation, the house is placed separately on a translucent matte support, making it a focal point within an indeterminate space.