“THREADS OF MEMORIES”

On 5 September, the exhibition “Threads of Memories”, bringing together projects by Zhanna Kulikova, Marina Sazonenko and Yulia Altukhova, opens at the MOSART Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls association. The exhibition is devoted to memory — personal, family and shared — captured in photographs, family archives, fabric, wood, embroidery and other objects that help keep a connection with the past.

Dates:
5 September — 15 November
2026

At the heart of the exhibition are stories of people, families and places that live on thanks to memories and handmade practices. The artists show that memory exists not only in stories but also in material traces: old photographs, family heirlooms, scraps of fabric, wooden objects and threads with which history can literally be “stitched”.

In the series “Reconstructing Memory: Embroidering the Family Archive”, Marina Sazonenko explores family archives, migration routes and the search for one’s roots. The artist creates images of the family archive through embroidery and textiles. The faces in the works remain blank, allowing viewers to see their own family in them.

Yulia Altukhova’s project “Wave Trail” is dedicated to the memory of people resettled from territories flooded during the construction of hydroelectric power stations. Archival photographs transferred onto wooden chips, together with embroidery and cyanotype, tell of places that disappeared under water but remain in human memory.

In the series “Flowers for Evgenia”, Zhanna Kulikova turns to her family archive and the memory of a loved one. Flowers embroidered on photographs become a way to revive memories and convey feelings that are hard to put into words.
In the exhibition, thread, fabric, wood and photography become not only artistic materials but also carriers of memory. The exhibition invites visitors to recall their own family histories and see how personal memories add up to the shared history of several generations.