As a theme, memory and nostalgia can be overplayed and there is certainly no shortage of artists out there mining this territory but Ezhkova has a way of ‘restaging’ certain family scenarios that are both comforting yet oddly unsettling as well; young children lined up in winter coats, the austere, formidable matriarch behind dark glasses, a young girl staring up at the camera, the photograph lifting her out of time and now revisited again as a painting.
June 15, 2011
August 24, 2012
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childhood, nostalgia, water color, Soviet Union, old foto, St. Petersburg school