Heart
Hearttsyna offers a way to study the history of his family, where every piece of information has to be «extracted» from the inside of a tree.
There’s a whole grove of facts that you want to know, but not every effort ends in success.
The known facts are printed on the logs with a clear photograph. For example, when my great-grandfather came from Karelia to Leningrad to study, he took the name «Markov» by the name of a relative and signed it.
Family legends and untrustworthy facts are pictures wrapped up in lace curtains: there are several options for the Karel great-grandfather’s name, but it is not recorded anywhere. You can’t find any documents anywhere with any last name — that information is covered with red paint that you really want to get through.
And finally, burned wood is something lost that we may not even know what to look for in this direction.
The groves of memories, stories, and facts found are a reflection on what can be lost in the history of your family but never find what you expect.
The project was carried out within the framework of the DREVO Art Reserve in the SKAF Library Space in the spring of 2024 in St. Petersburg.
Photo from an exhibition back in the SKAF area on 15 May
Each artist was given the opportunity to present his project and the process of working on it within the framework of the artist-to-act.
It also took part in the KvartiraS Gallery’s «Illusion of Disguise» exhibition in the autumn of 2024 in Artplay.
Photo taken from the exhibit «Illusion of Oblaze» on 3 October 2024
Photo taken from the exhibit «Illusion of Oblaze» on 3 October 2024
The installation also had its third iteration: in the spring of 2025, it participated in the exhibition «Protective Spaces: Protection/Vulnerability», sponsored by SEPTEMAS.
Video and photo from the exhibit «Protective Spaces: Protection/Vulnerability» on 17 May 2025
