The requiem
There was a monstrous cataclysm in 1990s in our country - the USSR had crushed. The most terrible thing was not a change power or economic course, but a destruction ideological value, which had been felling with meaning life of several generations for many years. These values organized a society and were guidelines for aspirations and progress of each person in the USSR. Their sharp destruction without new ideology in exchange has led to a break in self-consciousness of people.
It is a series about the people who remained in their time. They communicate with this time, materializing it in their own consciousness.
They are incapable to escape from the past and don’t want. Perception of the reality passes through a prism created by consciousness on the basis of last ideological values. Such perception lead to monstrous distortions, therefore the reality excites a horror and a going away from it towards the past.
The main hero of the series – my grandmother. The most part of her conscious life she had lived in the USSR. She had been hardly living ruins of 90s, but the time went and it seemed that she had reconciled. However, reconciliation was only external, it was absent inside (it wasn’t inside). The older she grew the more difficult it was to hide the internal contradictions that were born because of the rejection of reality and herself in it.
The second hero is the bust of Lenin. Lenin embodies ideological field of past values.
The third hero – the reality.
The whole of series is built on the collisions of the heroes and on their interrelations. And in addition on interpretation of the reality of heroes, one of them falls out of it periodically. There is a struggle for what indeed is a reality and who exists in it really.
technical information:
camera: Mamiya 645
material: B/W Rolled film 120
processing: manual silver bromide print 30Ñ…40