Olga Dospekhova

Distance creates a new look at the environment. When I came back home to Saint Petersburg, after two years of studies in France, I discovered a lot of changes around my neighbourhoods. The word that was coming into my head: abandonment, desolation. Abandonment of city projects, abandonment of people. Indifference.

A beautiful seaside before, this place is changed. Now the seaside is closed for citizen and they can't even watch the sea anymore. By covering the stones, my intention was to make an artistic intervention on this site, bring a focus on this landscape, create a kind of fragile map which would archive this place in some way and  to tell  :
« I am with you ».

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Project was created during the international art residency at art centre Pushkinskaya 10.