Art Memory
A project in which artists work with the stories of residents of a nursing home.
ART PROJECTS
"Sometimes our memory needs a mediator, and that mediator is art."
A sociocultural project in which artists work with the stories of residents of a nursing home and on their basis comprehend the era of the 1960s in the USSR, as well as the phenomenon of memory itself.
Dates: 10.2019-10.2020
15 interviews were collected from residents of a nursing home (Boarding house for labor veterans No. 29), on the basis of which 18 artists created their works. These works were presented at 3 exhibitions.
Project authors: Daria Dmitrieva, Valeria Zemskova.
Curator: Ksenia Bashmakova.
In 2020, the project won the competition from the Presidential Grants Fund and received the opportunity for further implementation using grant funds.
The final exhibition of the project was included in the parallel program of the 7th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art and was held at the Thursday Foundation.
The Art-Memory project won the competition for the best projects of non-profit organizations in the field of culture "The Art of Creating and Helping", held by the Open NPO portal with the support of the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house.
The online exhibition of the project on the international platform Google Arts & Culture was viewed by thousands people from 80 countries.
All project participants
Artists: Sofia Afanasyeva, Irina Babkina, Marina Bartosh, Anna Dmitri, Anastasia Grin, Veronika Kalacheva, Natalia Konyukova, Yulia Kushnarenko, Vasilisa Lebedeva, Nadezhda Lisina, Evgeny Malyshev, Amir Mamin, Olga Ryabova, Elena Skripkina, Ekaterina Finkelstein, Dina Chetvertnaya, Maria Chertkova, Shamil Shaaev.
Heroes of the project: Alla Viktorovna Loskutova, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Naumenko, Alexandra Ivanovna Shumyiko, Anatoly Mikhailovich Karpov, Raisa Ivanovna Dyadkina, Tatyana Ilyinichna Shestakova, Svetlana Dmitrievna Sinitsina, Nina Viktorovna Guryanova, Ekaterina Ivanov Batkova, Andrey Nizhverhiy, Kesenovna Kesenovna Kesenovna. TSNETSOVA, BELLA Ivanovna Popova , Natalya Karpovna Struchkova, Tatyana Alekseevna Klenova.
Videographer and editor - Yulia Kushnarenko. Photographer - Ksenia Yablonskaya.
Partners: Sofia Foundation, VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Google arts & Culture, Labor Veterans Boarding House No. 29.
Videoart "I am inside" by Yulia Kushnarenko
