"things lost" is an assemblage installation with video taking elements from the different aspects of the the site. The building we used for the exhibition is part of a complex of buildings including the Romadonovsky railway station. Although the station itself is now unsafe to use, it is a striking place with a lot of history in the city. I imagined the station and the industrial area buzzing with life, imagined the movement of bodies along the waterfront, the barge-haulers and the crowds waiting for board the trains to all parts of Russia. Now only traces remain, swaying slightly in the breeze.

The accompanying video, "The River" re-enacts the ancient cyclical movement of death and rebirth through water, the basic elements of nature which remain despite other change. As we worked onsite, the power of the river became more and more important to me.

view "the River"