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River Flow
— participatory project, where artists and scientists, who study waters, had been working together. It had started in July of 2022 on the banks of Neva river (to be exact Malaya, Bolshaya and Srednyaya Nevka) and continued for several months.

During the research period artists participated in workshops and seminars of ichthyologist, ecologist, algologist, pedologist, entomologist, botanist, ornithologist. Next step of the laboratory was creating art-mediation, based on the scientific data, shared by scientists previously, for Saint P citizens, using the poetic language of metaphors.

For the River Flow I worked with the layers of geological history and their “ghosts” in the modernity. My mediation is called Neva’s Archives, during it I’ve turned the scientific narrative into the poetic one.

The subjects of my narrative are the “ghosts” of the organisms — previous inhabitants of the waters of proto Neva. Most of them are molluscs: ioldias, ancillides, litorinas, but also some fish: river flounder and sturgion.

The “ghosts” were created from the raw clay and were put in the water of Neva river, that had destroyed them. Together with the participants we were observing and documenting this process. We also created the “memories” for the hand-made album with graphics called Neva’s Archives.

Exhibitions:

2023 “Go with the Flow”, group exhibition, curated by Daria Boldyreva, “Neva’s Archives”, art-mediation for citizens, Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg

“Go with the Flow”, online exhibition

2022 “River Flow”, art and science laboratory,  curated by Daria Boldyreva, “Neva’s Archives”, art-mediation for citizens of Saint Petersburg