Textile canvas "Autumn on Primorskaya"
Textile canvas "Autumn on Primorskaya", 2024
Technique: embroidery on fabric
Size: 30 cm
Materials: linen, fabric printing, paper, sheet, yarn, thread (cotton, polyester), canvas (cotton), fabric (calico), beads
Technique: embroidery on fabric
Size: 30 cm
Materials: linen, fabric printing, paper, sheet, yarn, thread (cotton, polyester), canvas (cotton), fabric (calico), beads
The work was created before moving to another country. To piece together an image of my beloved place, where I had lived for many years — that was the task I set myself in my heart.
Like a collage, we collect different pieces of memories in our hearts, and textile art is incredibly suited to embodying memories and feelings through the composition of different textures.
The area around Primorskaya metro station is a place of cold winds, slightly wild, not yet fully cultivated banks of the Smolenka River, and an abundance of air dictated by the landscape itself.
Warm, yet grey, like the empty colour of textiles, it blends with embroidery made of woolen threads and pieces of fabric, intertwining with a photograph of the district's dominant feature, which you see when you exit the metro.
Like a collage, we collect different pieces of memories in our hearts, and textile art is incredibly suited to embodying memories and feelings through the composition of different textures.
The area around Primorskaya metro station is a place of cold winds, slightly wild, not yet fully cultivated banks of the Smolenka River, and an abundance of air dictated by the landscape itself.
Warm, yet grey, like the empty colour of textiles, it blends with embroidery made of woolen threads and pieces of fabric, intertwining with a photograph of the district's dominant feature, which you see when you exit the metro.
The hodgepodge of materials used in the creation of the panel helps to enliven such a cold and, at first glance, unattractive place along the river.
The circle at the top is not the warming sun of Vasilyevsky Island, echoing the dotted stitches reminiscent of rain.
The circle at the top is not the warming sun of Vasilyevsky Island, echoing the dotted stitches reminiscent of rain.
Once here, you feel the gloomy Balabanov spirit and the wide horizon of the bay in the distance. Late Soviet modernism and the sweep of architectural thought, frozen in the ruined, still Soviet idea of a sea façade.
Autumn is the perfect time to feel the image embodied in the panel, consisting of another, harsh and seemingly lost piece of the island.
Personal exhibition (12 October–3 November 2024, Mayakovsky Library, Sevkabel, Saint Petersburg)
As part of the exhibition, a guidebook was created for the area around the Primorskaya metro station.
As part of the exhibition, a guidebook was created for the area around the Primorskaya metro station.
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