Volga Savich
Time Box
Time Box
Much of what is around us is destroyed with time. Each new epoch erases the memories of the previous one, leaving nothing but dates, doubtful data and stones—stones that collect memories.
In this series of photographs I sought to connect the eternity of stone (as the most durable witness of history) with artifacts of film photography. I wanted to express coincidences, mistakes, and emotions that were lost among the pages of history books or discarded as something superfluous. Each new era erases the memory of the past and replaces it with new events, leaving behind a trace of unrecognizable dates, inaccurate facts and stones… I seek the forgotten images of our collective consciousness.
This exhibition uses the musical arrangement of the natural sounds of the city: noise, random phrases, everything that we hear today, tomorrow, and the next day. All of these sounds naturally evolve with time, due to many factors like technology, ecology, and economics. The sounds of the urban landscape merge and disappear without a trace. The musical arrangement includes vocal experiments by modern Belarusian composer, Sergei Pukst, totaling 20 tracks--each lasting 15 seconds(approximately the time a person takes to consider a photograph).
Location: Minsk, Independence Avenue
Fragments of architecture “Stalin’s empire”
Olga Savich, Minsk, Belarus 2009
Influences:
“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov
“Belarusian Atlantida” by Vyacheslav Rakytskyy
“Tales of the night” by Peter Heg
Time Box
Time Box
Much of what is around us is destroyed with time. Each new epoch erases the memories of the previous one, leaving nothing but dates, doubtful data and stones—stones that collect memories.
In this series of photographs I sought to connect the eternity of stone (as the most durable witness of history) with artifacts of film photography. I wanted to express coincidences, mistakes, and emotions that were lost among the pages of history books or discarded as something superfluous. Each new era erases the memory of the past and replaces it with new events, leaving behind a trace of unrecognizable dates, inaccurate facts and stones… I seek the forgotten images of our collective consciousness.
This exhibition uses the musical arrangement of the natural sounds of the city: noise, random phrases, everything that we hear today, tomorrow, and the next day. All of these sounds naturally evolve with time, due to many factors like technology, ecology, and economics. The sounds of the urban landscape merge and disappear without a trace. The musical arrangement includes vocal experiments by modern Belarusian composer, Sergei Pukst, totaling 20 tracks--each lasting 15 seconds(approximately the time a person takes to consider a photograph).
Location: Minsk, Independence Avenue
Fragments of architecture “Stalin’s empire”
Olga Savich, Minsk, Belarus 2009
Influences:
“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov
“Belarusian Atlantida” by Vyacheslav Rakytskyy
“Tales of the night” by Peter Heg