Farewell
Digital photography, 2005
Dedicated to the soldiers of World War II
In "The Portrait of the Series "Missing" video by Roman Korzhov from Samara the man, pictured outside his habitual life context, is looking with detachment through the camera not seeing a spectator.
Accordion player from Marina Fomenko’s video "Solo" is feeling deeply the emotionality and dramatism of the composition that he is playing, coalescing himself with the instrument and music score.
A lady’s plait in the video "Within a Hair’s Breadth" by Swedish artist Natasha Dahnberg is creating an image of a dear person and reminding of impermanence of life.
"A Call" by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya from Moscow makes us remember how fragile life is.
A portrait as a look-alike, a portrait as a reflection — that’s what we see in "Doppelgenger" performance of Viktoriya Ilyushkina and Maya Popova from St. Petersburg.
Remaining within the framework of portrait, Shen Wei from the USA in the performance named "Bubble" sublimates an existential drama in such a simple action as blowing saliva bubbles.
Marina Rudenko from Moscow presents her self-portrait showing an artist in dialog with art ("Inter View").
Another Moscow author Elena Ivanova demonstrates "Self-portrait not as an artist or a cleaner, but just as a fact".
Gioula Papadopoulou from Greece in her video "Ophelia x2" creates a fictitious character portrait — a new vision of everlasting Ophelia.