search of the lost memory
search of the lost memory
For over a hundred years, my family has lived in the same area.
Despite the turning points in Soviet and Russian history, I live near where my great-great-grandfather lived before the 1917 revolution. His home has been gone for a long time; epochs and generations have changed. I knew almost nothing about him, and now I am filling in the blanks.
I project the photographs saved in my family album onto modern views of the places where my great-great-grandfather lived. I do not follow the path of then and now, I am not looking for precise angles for combining shots. My goal is the layering of time.
Through photographs, I restore the broken link with the roots. This is an appeal to the origins, to the history of a particular family - the return of lost memory.
Despite the turning points in Soviet and Russian history, I live near where my great-great-grandfather lived before the 1917 revolution. His home has been gone for a long time; epochs and generations have changed. I knew almost nothing about him, and now I am filling in the blanks.
I project the photographs saved in my family album onto modern views of the places where my great-great-grandfather lived. I do not follow the path of then and now, I am not looking for precise angles for combining shots. My goal is the layering of time.
Through photographs, I restore the broken link with the roots. This is an appeal to the origins, to the history of a particular family - the return of lost memory.
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Более ста лет моя семья живет в одном и том же районе. Несмотря на переломные моменты в советской и российской истории, я живу рядом с тем местом, где жил прапрадед до революции. Его дома давно нет, сменились эпохи и поколения. Я почти ничего не знала о нем, и теперь восполняю пробелы. Я проецирую сохраненные в семейном альбоме фотографии на современные виды тех мест, где жил прапрадед. Я не иду по пути «было - стало», и не ищу точных ракурсов для совмещения кадров. Моя цель - наслоение временных пластов. Через фотографии я восстанавливаю разорванную связь с корнями. Это обращение к истокам, к истории конкретной семьи – возвращение утраченной памяти.