Dream is wonderful, yet uncleaer

This body of work explores social heritage of the closed textile mill with my personal connection and memories about the community I was part of. Inspiration for the work was drawn from interviews conducted with former workers of the mill and from the digitised family albums, diaries, and memorabilia gathered by me during these interviews.

As the daughter of a designer of the mill, I spent my childhood there, drawing fabric patterns and dreaming about the profession of a textile artist. The title of the work takes its name from ‘March of Enthusiasts’, the signature song from the Soviet film ‘The Bright Way’ (1940). The Soviet cinema icon Lubov Orlova starred in the role of a female weaver and she inspired one of the mill weavers to seek employment at the mill. A video work as deconstruction of ‘the heroine’ is one of the works I produced. Highlighting of peripheral histories I focused on the representation of women, heightened sensitivity towards social and political matters in post-Soviet region.