17 SOMMER

What do we remember? why do we remember specific things, moments, even smells? What triggers memories?

What do we remember? why do we remember specific things, moments, even smells? What triggers memories?

In this work I deal with my personal

memories, where subtle in-between moments have a greater importance than major events.

These seemingly single fragments yet produce

associatively a narrative frame with a lot of room for the viewer‘s personal

interpretation.

My memories are bound to a place

in the (Russian) middle of

nowhere

where

I spent every summer

- 17 summers.

a place

where vast meadows meet a drunken river

where religion meets superstition

where a flying glowing soul and mermaids exist

each Photo is a fragment

symbolic, abstract, concret

mysterious, sorrowful and poetic.

The poem below was written for my work by Peggy Neidel:

das feld schläft

buschiges, zitronen-

gelbes meer

während du

schwimmst darin

dir den mund

überreif und klagend

hältst

deine augen

und die schafe

jagen sich selbst

schatten kommen

gehen wie herden

wo

ist dieser tempel

in den du schlüpfst

wie unter deine lider

den du dir auf

dein herz tätowierst

kleine regenschauer

zotteln

dahin, bis

jemand kommt

der dich sucht

es ist alles

schwarz um

diesen körper

dein lichtes, luftiges

netz

hebt sich

Peggy Neidel, 2017

© Svetlana Biryukova - curtain
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curtain

© Svetlana Biryukova - night
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night

© Svetlana Biryukova - white
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white

© Svetlana Biryukova - glow / soul
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glow / soul

© Svetlana Biryukova - tattoo
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tattoo

© Svetlana Biryukova - icon
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icon

© Svetlana Biryukova - shadow
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shadow

© Svetlana Biryukova - oranges
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oranges

© Svetlana Biryukova - grass
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grass

© Svetlana Biryukova - wolf
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wolf

© Svetlana Biryukova - circles
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circles

© Svetlana Biryukova - portrait
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portrait

© Svetlana Biryukova - hand / sign of the cross
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hand / sign of the cross

© Svetlana Biryukova - forest
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forest

© Svetlana Biryukova - bird / symbol of death
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bird / symbol of death

© Svetlana Biryukova - grave / plastic flowers
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grave / plastic flowers

© Svetlana Biryukova - velvet
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velvet

© Svetlana Biryukova - BIO
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