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#reviewSasha Grom, Fences, 2019 </How Contemporary Artists Reflect On Rapidly Changing Kazan City's Landscape> by Daria Rakhmanova: “In the 2019 photo project “Fences”, Sasha Grom tries to uncover the reasons behind her own hostility towards these objects, a feeling of fear and lack of freedom. Through personal experience of perception, she comes to a conclusion that substantiates the nature of these emotions. She says: “In my project, I consider fences as a phenomenon. And I also try to understand my personal feelings and thoughts about that. Using the method of ‘self-replication’, comparison and interaction, I have understood that the fence draws the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’, provoking a feeling of alienation, paranoia and loss of freedom. At the same time, the very cause of the fence is fear of the external, the vast, the marginal. Fear begets lack of freedom. The result of my work is a series of group portraits, where the fence is the one being portrayed, while a person serves as the background”