Anticosmonautics

Photos of Mikhail Grebenshchikov from the Ground Control project on the website of the New

Mikhail Grebenshchikov

photographer

- The name of the photo project Ground Control refers to the song by David Bowie Space Oddity. I represent the participation of the police in protests as a kind of “anticosmonautics”. In childhood, the border was open cosmos, which we dreamed of achieving and conquering. And there were heroes in the spacesuit who, through the helmet, saw the earth, stars. Now we are reflected in the helmets, and the border was not somewhere outside the earth, but right here-on the other side of the policeman took. But maybe this proximity is deceiving, and there are no less impenetrable boundless spaces behind the hare?