Ksenia Galiaeva is Russian born, Amsterdam and Antwerp based artist, who visualizes her roots nearly literally in her photographically works, by going back to Pskov and the Dacha where she grew up.
Ksenia explains this focus in her words:
"Since 1997 I have been making photos of my parents in the paradisiacal surroundings of our Russian summerhouse in an attempt to influence my own memory and our family history.
Duration and memory are embedded in perception. Memory changes through repetition ; perception is coloured by previous experiences but has also the power to initiate changes in memory.
The summerhouse has become a collection of metaphors where time passes at a stretchable speed - like mythical time where the story continues but is repeating itself at the same time."