Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 2
© Bella Logacheva
Bella Logacheva
Bella Logacheva (b. 1973) attended Alexandr Suprun’s (a Vremya group artist whose portfolio can be found in Exhibition One) photography class as an art student, and this could account for the artist’s frequent use of photography as a media in her work.
Logacheva’s Home Exercises (2011-2012) is an artbook in which retouched analog and digital photos are pasted over pages of sheet music (“early 20th century Schmitt’s piano exercises found at the bouquiniste market in Kharkiv,” as the artist’s statement proudly claims). The hand-written comments supply advice on everyday home gymnastics and expands on its comparison with the Soviet Young Pioneers’ morning exercise rites. The artist defines the project concept as “outer world intrusion into the intimate space of two young people”. This work provides another example of the Kharkiv School naked self-portraying trend as a way of telling a personal story (see Boris Mikhailov’s I am not I and Sergei Solonsky’s Naked Selfies in Exhibition Two, BOBA Group’s Furniture from Gadyach in this Exhibition).
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