Post #46

Compare Marusia Makhmutova's collages with the photographs of her father, Konstantin Makhmutov, who captured the 1991 Coup in Moscow. She found the negatives 30 years later, as she calls them 'the treasure, which been waiting for me', and reflected on historical event through the cross-generational prism. 'As I haven’t existed in 1991 yet, my goal was to redefine these pictures through the eyes of a child, who obviously haven’t seen the event itself, but came to know it through the historical sources. But which sources one should believe in? Even now. Especially now. That’s why the first thing I did was to add a simple line next to the photo of the White House — are they bad or good? “We haven’t even asked this type of questions back then, everything seemed unambiguous” - one woman would tell me later. I bought a tank, toy tank, carefully examining and picking the tracks. I covered them with red paint and pressed against the collages.' read more