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There was a cottage
Ksenia Galyaeva (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Maxim Gorshkov (Hanover, Germany) and Maxim Epstein (Jerusalem, Israel) were born and learned to create in Pskov
Ksenia Galyaeva (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Maxim Gorshkov (Hanover, Germany) and Maxim Epstein (Jerusalem, Israel) were born and learned to create in Pskov
This photo is 15 years old. Three stand against the wall, dotted graffiti. Graffiti is not local color, but then there were signs, such were codes by which they recognized each other. 30 years ago, when they were born in this city, the walls were painted differently. And now, returning from time to time to the city, they are forced to read today's signs created without them. Someone rebuilt their old dwelling, their cottage, we must recognize her.
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As if in confusion, it fixes gas slabs, burners, kettles, uncomfortable landscapes, closed low doors, broken windows ...
Confusion is caused by the power of all these things, the not subject to time and self -sufficiency.
A man with a cat on his shoulder sits in the kitchen. All this kitchen with a curtain, an oilcloth, objects on the table returns the past in its literal form to the photographer. The character also smiles mockingly, guessing that you can’t jump out of this clogged time. And the window is blurred, behind him, I suppose, the same teapot, frozen in the ice ...
Something anecdotal is told by the window. Clown faces, poses are absolutely true in recognition. As in a dream, you can’t escape, and there is still something invisible in the room, perhaps a bear’s head, a mask, which is the essence.
The mask of time is strong, does not let Maxim Gorshkov go, as if that which is not within the past - invisible to him.
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The characters, including the dachshund, willingly pose, participate in this optional cinema, offer themselves to a familiar ritual.
In this world of a family album, you can easily change the inflatable boat for a bench, a bench on a broken sofa, which was carried out and forgot to enter.
The characters are surrounded by a mass of random things, and all these are amulets of the family, amulets. There is no family album without them, and you should not leave the protection.
Three stand on the road. They are together, but not close to each other. They feel differently, emanating from the field that surrounded them. There are no habitual amulets, there are no amulets. There are only small bouquets, ephemeral pieces of field, they will not protect anything from anything. So, they asked to stop for a family picture, and the cottage is far away ...
The portrait of mom is also for the album
But Ksenia is afraid to give the will of the camera such an expensive mother's identity.
Photography is a case, painting or rather, there is no probability in it, everything can be corrected, changed. Therefore, the composition and texture of the portrait of the mother is painting.
But it is customary to draw in family albums. Ksenia Verna genre.
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In a closed courtyard, where they sort out potatoes or carry children in a stroller, that is, they are engaged in quite ordinary business, there is a truck with a van distorted from severity
That's the whole event. Why do you really want to know what is in this van? What does his number mean? What screams a boy with a broken figure? What are the curtains of the windows, what splashes like white flags? ..
Birds, a huge flock flew over the trees. Was there a shot? Scream? ..
The reality in the pictures of Maxim Epstein is simple, but incredibly meaningful and not equal to itself, it has meanings that are different from the literal ones. Therefore, it is so strong to look at the impulse in detail, to read the classified.
Two boys stand under the window. They see a photographer. They would pose, but to pose - to change themselves, and they do not yet know who they are. This hitch of them gives a humorous effect, it could become a literal meaning of the picture. But the boys are a huge window. The curtains of a complex pattern are transparent, but tightly shifted. Who is the curtains? Maybe someone who is there knows everything about boys?
Black rooster wanders among the grass. It is necessary not to frighten him, it is necessary that he be near the jamb for cutting firewood. You need to be patient.
If the case is stitched, the case will come. He will be unreasonably reliable that Maxim Epstein really needs.
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In the reliability of the case, the codes of reality, the meanings of reality, the signs that the old dwelling, the familiar dacha are filled with.
Elena Maksimovskaya.
From the editorial office. The photo exhibition "Dacha" opens in the gallery for Herzen, 6 on Thursday, July 19, at 18 o’clock.