Fractured Horizon is a multimedia installation that delves into the intricate tapestry of memory, history, and the future.
This work is dedicated to the memory of the victims killed as a result of repressions carried out by the Soviet regime. The installation beckons the viewer to bear witness to the former Solovetski / Solovki prison camp in Russia.
GOLOSA, portraits of Gulag victims on handmade paper.
Sandarmokh is a four minute long video monument of a Karelian forest where thousands of prisoners from Solovetsky islands were executed by Stalin’s secret police.In 1997, Yuri Dmitriev, a Gulag historian led a research expedition to uncover these secret burial sites and to help victims’ families to find their missing relatives. Dmitriev worked alongside Memorial, an association that documents political repressions in the USSR and in present-day Russia. Together, Dmitriev and Memorial discovered thousands of human remains in the Sandarmokh forest.However, Dmitriev and Memorial’s excavation of this dark chapter in Russia’s history has caused a backlash from Putin’s regime.n March 2022, a month following Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, Yuri Dmitriev was sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. With many journalists killed, opposition leaders like Alexei Navalny and Gulag historian Yuri Dmitriev arrested and exiled to the penal colonies, there is no denying that the Gulags never ceased to exist. Today, the Gulag archive is at risk of being erased by Putin’s regime.
FRACTURED HORIZON. Sekirnaya Gora At Solovetsky Islands. Cyanotype print on watercolor paper.
Photographs of Gulag prisoners. Dynamic cyanotype prints. Original images by Tomacz Kizny