High time to summarise
“Birds of passage” is one of my recent photo series presented as a winter semester work at Rampa Gallery of UJEP University in Czech Republic where I study now.
“Birds of passage” is a diary-style project describing my inner state of two first months after leaving Moscow for Czech Republic and comprising photographs (both mine own as well as my friend`s and unknown stuff found in abandoned house), self-portraits, texts of my diaries, notes, letter scans. It also includes video recording of my sitting on a chair in a busy street in Prague during the rush hour which expresses a quintessence of being in the middle of unknown foreign environment with no connection with the place and people with whom I share neither common language nor any kind of mutual interest.
This series is an attempt to convey my state of lost identity while starting a new life after leaving my homeland, a journey to unknown, falling out from habitual system of coordinates. In this case photography becomes not only the way of observing and studying new environment but also a way to find my physical place in it - metaphorically it is a way to appropriate things which gives me illusion that I own something, that though being lost I still exist.
EYEMAZING The New Collectible Art Photography
I`m honoured to have my pictures published in Thames&Hudson book of EYEMAZING collection.
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Buchenwald series at VIZII Festival, Ukraine
I participate in “Memorial” exhibition together with Pavel Banka and Robert Hutinski as a part of VIZII Photo Festival in Kiev 24 May - 2 July
Works published in EYEMAZING
Some of my photographs were published in EYEMAZING magazine in spring issue 2012.
Young Photography Exhibition, St Petersburg
My photos at Young Photography Exhibition, St Petersburg
Backlight Photo Festival, Finland
Some of my works will be exhibited in “Territories of Desire” exhibition in Tampere Art Museum as a part of Backlight Photo Festival.
Finland, Tampere, 17 September – 3 November 2011.
Armenia residency
Recently I came back from Armenia where I was invited to the residency by Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory. I worked on my “Memory of the land” project.
My work is participating in final ISSP exhibition in Riga
The ISSP (International Summer School of Photography) and Goethe Institute Riga opened the 2010 Exhibition “Reference point” and presented ISSP 2010 catalogue, 3 November 2010.
The exhibition is presenting the results of ISSP 2010 where I took part in Roger Ballen`s worshop. The exhibition will be open to public: 04 November – 22 December 2010 and 10 January – 31 January 2011. ISSP in facebook
My in Thomas Werner Project based on Lev Tolstoy
I participate in “1 artist - 1 picture” Aliosha Gorshok exhibition, a project by Thomas Werner based on Contemporary Interpretation Of Lev Tolstoy.
Curator: Thomas Werner
Exhibition Dates and Locations:
New York: Parsons The New School for Design Opening Reception: Friday, October 15th, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Exhibition to follow later this month at Thomas Werner Gallery, New York
Krasnoyarsk, Russia: November 2010
Novosibirsk, Russia: January 2011
Petrozavodsk, Russia: March or June 2011, final date to be determined
Moscow, Russia: Summer 2011, final date to be determined
Perm, Russia: Summer 2011, final date to be determined
my photos at Pingyao Photography Festival 2010 China
My nude photographs were exhibited at Pingyao Photography Festival 2010 China as a part of Connivance project by french curator Dominique Charlet.
Roger Ballen workshop in Latvia
This August I visited International Summer School of Photography in Latvia (http://www.issp.lv) where I attended the workshop of Roger Ballen (”Capturing Your Shadow in Black and White”)
Some of the photos I made:
