Multichannel video installation
What remains of one’s history when the archive is lost? What remains of one’s memory when the places to which it was tied no longer exist?
This multichannel video installation is a poetic exploration of the fragile nature of memory, kinship, and belonging in the absence of material traces. Departing from a single surviving photograph taken in 1934, the only remnant of a personal archive destroyed during the Russian occupation, the work follows the trajectory of a family from the East of Ukraine in the manner of a feverish dream, where you see your childhood home but everything appears to be slightly wrong.
The work was co-commissioned by the University of Salford and Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool) for ‘Self-Defined. New Stories From Archives’ exhibition curated by Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi.
