Out of my memory

in this project i work with old family photographs from my personal archive. the project consist of several parts in different media and supposed to be showen as an installation in a dark room. the first part of the project is a family album made of photos of me, but with myself being cutted out. because for me is very important the problem of the other who is the person on that photographes for me: i remember time and place, but do not associate myself with that person. like a usual family album it starts with birth and ends on the moment i became myself in a present time, when i started arts - whom i do remember as myself. next part of the project are six photographes from the 1950th which were manipulated and trasformed. they are presented as very slow changing videos in digital frames (with music from that time) hanging on the wall like usual family photos. this is about time distance and sens of death we experience watching old amateur photographs, being dissolved in time. the third part is 8mm film projection on a black screen, looped in 14 secondes, of my father playing with my elder brother, who is named like me, but i didn`t new about his existence for a very long time, and he is being associated with me in the film. and the last part of the project are seven filmoscopes on a shelve with two slides in each. where the backward slides are photos of me made by my father in my childhood and the foreground slides are my recent selfportrets. slides are positioned in a defined distance between them.
the other level of the project, besides interaction with old photographes and personal memory, is a problem of other space i have been born in (i was born in 1982 in soviet union and now i live in modern russia), which now has gone and is part of the history. and we have only photographes and films as memory of that space. i think that private amateur photographes give us possobility to reveal it free of ideology.