About forest, sorrow and traps (2023)
Nominations and exhibitions
- International Festival of Visual Arts “Encontros Da Imaginem” Portugal, Braga (Book “About the Forest, Sorrow and Traps”) 2023
- Gallery “Triumph” “One-way street, Moscow (“About the Forest, Sorrow and Traps”)
- Personal exhibition in a non-Russian non-state museum (curator A. Dashevsky)
- The book is in the collection of the Garage Museum
The idea was inspired by Ernst Jünger’s book “Walking into the Forest.” The author views the departure gesture as a particular kind of political conflict. Can the forest be secure today, though? Is there safety in the world, and if so, why has it grown so much more dangerous recently?
My father was a former hermit as well. His 1994 retreat to the taiga was attributed to exhaustion from the commotion and issues in the area. He recounted the traps he and the forester constructed to catch game and defend themselves from animals when discussing his life in the forest. In his article “The Lion’s Trap, ” Mikhail Yampolsky discusses the idea of fatal absence, discussing both the person who created it and its future.
Book size 18×27cm
52 pages
Open binding
Limited edition of 70 copies (signed and numbered)
Each book is entirely hand-assembled