Forgotten memory

The representation of emerging images in memory gives me a feeling of a state of stability in my own world of subjective reality.

The sculptures, preserved in different parts of Russia, were installed in Soviet times, when I was still a child. Sculptures for athletes, collective farmers, children, writers and composers, pioneers... Fixing, I collect them as artifacts - signs with symbolic content of the activities of people of the past.

At a certain point in my life, sculptures of the Soviet era, preserved in one form or another, became a trigger for my memory. At some point in my life, my interaction with sculptures began to trigger memories of my childhood. Images of people close to me appear in my memory, but like sculptures, they lose their clear outlines and are deprived of details.

I began to collect old things that belonged to our family, information about them, study and examine them. Connections between people and events began to be restored, some moments that seemed unimportant then were recreated, rethought anew, and new meanings were written down. These meanings, as a therapeutic effect, explained many things that I thought about and did not understand.

When going to places with sculptures, I had to communicate a lot with people and at the same time listen to their memories of the past.

The representation of emerging images in memory gives me a feeling of a state of stability in my own world of subjective reality.