Each of my trips to the village is a ritual of memory. In walks to your favorite places, in landscapes and in people, you always try to find images from your childhood and remember those who no longer exist. Memory is fragile, but that's all we have.
Ukrainian-born, Russian-bred, Afghan-raised, filmmaker once started to catalog all his fences, and then more and more new fences appeared.
Big Clay #4, a 12-meter sculpture by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, was installed in Moscow in August 2021 and caused a mixed reaction. Gradually, the Russian context supplemented the work with two new parts – thus, from a single work, Big Clay turned into a triptych.
