Exhibitions
This section contains exhibitions both personal and with my participation. The topics of the exhibitions are related to my main interests — textile art and children’s creativity.
The curtain. Diary of memories
While analyzing scanned photographs of my maternal grandmother’s relatives, I found copies of the same manuscript, which was made in the late 1980s. The first words of the manuscript, "Our ancestors came to Siberia at the beginning of the 20th century on a New railway as settlers to develop the free Siberian lands…" immersed me not only in the history of my family, but also more in the history of Russian peasant settlers of the early 20th century, who suffered many shocks — resettlement, the First World War war, revolution, collectivization and dispossession, repression, World War II, the devastation of villages, and finally, moving to the city. I wanted to fully immerse myself in these texts and understand every event in this manuscript, go through (stitch) all this way from the beginning to the place where I was already born. The work was presented at the exhibition "Sugar Bowl"
(Novosibirsk).
(Novosibirsk).
Participation in the group exhibition "Take pieces of paper, poles and pieces of wood"
The exhibition was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and was a game show featuring works by avant-garde artists El Lisitsky, Vera Ermolaeva, Yakov Meksin, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, Eduard Krimmer and contemporary authors. For this exhibition, I created a cardboard installation and conducted workshops for children. Link to the exhibition Take the pieces of paper
Repairing Memories: Embroidering the Family Archive
The exhibition was held in the Yamuzey space (Kineshma) and was an artistic interpretation of the family archive, embodied in embroidery, printing on fabric, hand theater and other objects of applied creativity. More information about the exhibition can be found on the website of the Museum Reconstruction of Memory.
Hand-made home theater "Siberian Spring"
The hand-made home theater "Siberian Spring" was created by me as part of the folk laboratory "Workshop of the Book" and is a kind of nativity theater, but not in its traditional sense. The plot was taken from my mother’s memories of the street games of village children during the early spring. I created the decorations from wood, and the dolls using embroidery and based on my family photo archive. The part of the plot concerning childhood dreams and dreams is made with the help of the shadow theater. We played and filmed the theater in parts for several months with the family at home, and it was an incredible family pastime that we will remember for a long time.
Siberian Spring
Neighborhood map
In 2023, for the Bauman Patterns exhibition, comic artist Yana Kuleshova and I sewed a map of the Bauman district. This map refers to the period of childhood, when the street and courtyard are perceived as a space for games, creativity and imagination. The characters that inhabit the neighborhoods were born as they walked around the area, and are built on personal associations, memories, and fantasies.
This is how a jungle with a tiger appears on the site of a small park, a cage where a fabulous bird has settled in the restaurant area, the railway becomes a roller coaster, and the Paper Mill becomes a factory for the production of clouds. As a researcher of children’s literature in the German Settlement area, I collected the plots of the novel by the German writer Irmgard Coin "The Girl the Children were not Allowed to Hang out with" (1936), which tells about a Cologne schoolgirl, her games, dreams and pranks in her hometown. An article about the map was published in the Metro newspaper in 2024.
This is how a jungle with a tiger appears on the site of a small park, a cage where a fabulous bird has settled in the restaurant area, the railway becomes a roller coaster, and the Paper Mill becomes a factory for the production of clouds. As a researcher of children’s literature in the German Settlement area, I collected the plots of the novel by the German writer Irmgard Coin "The Girl the Children were not Allowed to Hang out with" (1936), which tells about a Cologne schoolgirl, her games, dreams and pranks in her hometown. An article about the map was published in the Metro newspaper in 2024.
Gender Scissors Paper
The exhibition "Gender/scissors/Paper" is dedicated to children’s creativity and games on the pages of Soviet magazines "Chizh", "Hedgehog", "Murzilka", "Cricket", "Funny Pictures" and others in the period from the 1920s in the 1980s. Board games, paper "clippings" and paper models of machinery, "strollers" and puzzles are all components of children’s daily routine of the Soviet era. The gender order in the Soviet Union was shaped by the state and can be roughly divided into three periods, each of which is reflected in children’s culture. Interview
