The curtain. Diary of memories
While analyzing scanned photographs of my maternal grandmother’s relatives, I found copies of the same manuscript, which was made in the late 1980s. The first words of the manuscript,
"Our ancestors came to Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century on a New railway as settlers to develop the free Siberian lands…" immersed me not only in the history of my family, but also more in the history of Russian peasant settlers of the early 20th century, who suffered many shocks — resettlement, the First World War war, revolution, collectivization and dispossession, repression, World War II, the devastation of villages, and finally, moving to the city. I wanted to fully immerse myself in these texts and understand every event in this manuscript, go through (stitch) all this way from the beginning to the place where I was already born. The work was presented at the exhibition
"Sugar Bowl"(Novosibirsk).