SILK MONUMENT
The installation is a collage of photographs of women's gravestone medallions — chipped, cracked, weathered and broken. These portraits are derived from images I took in cemeteries in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland - regions situated on the ever-shifting edges of borders and empires. Through these fragmented faces, I turn to the lives of those who did not take part in the wars, but endured them. Their stories remain undocumented - invisible within official narratives shaped by conflict, ideology and state power. I turn to a history without (state) borders and to the silent absence of individual women's biographies — lives erased from collective memory.
The work evokes an object somewhere between a domestic tablecloth and a flag - suspended between care and authority. It reminds us of the invisible history of everyday life that persists through wars, occupations and disasters - a history that is lived but rarely recorded.
The work evokes an object somewhere between a domestic tablecloth and a flag - suspended between care and authority. It reminds us of the invisible history of everyday life that persists through wars, occupations and disasters - a history that is lived but rarely recorded.
EXHIBITIONS
VERSSchmuggel Belarus Deutschland.
Leipzig, Germany. 2022
︎︎︎ VERSSchmuggel Belarus Deutschland. Galerie intershop. Leipzig, 2022
Wear Zones.
Brest, Belarus. 2020
