Rethinking of Sadness
2023
series of stereo-vario prints* based on video documentation of aссidently meeting with the huge abstract mountain of something covered with black plastic oilcloth in the Netherlands after a few months of a full-scale invasion of Russia, after mass-graves vere found in Irpen and Buchaand photo self-portraits.
“Black will no longer be sad in mourning.
We will wrap what will be resurrected in black.”
Anna refers to deep visual associations rooted in the horrific events in the occupied Ukrainian cities, the mass graves of tortured people, and the black body bags, and explores the nature of sadness and mourning, facing the unknown and the lost.
The basis for the series of prints is a video documentation of a multi-meter wide black mountain of unknown origin, covered in black oilcloth (Netherlands), and a rethinking of her personal experience of dissolving into mourning and returning to a familiar state of being in a series of self-portraits.
What is the visual language of grief? How do we find a way out of it? Anna creates a situation to reflect on this by using variable prints and images with blurred boundaries.
