Alexander Glyadyelov «One and prison» (Ukraine)

Museum of Modern Art «Plast-Art»
Chernihiv, Gorkogo, 6
23.09-09.10.2011

«It was exactly seven years ago. I went out from the security entrance of Colony Number 16. I finished shooting for the day, and in this place in general. At the end of passage, at the corner of a concrete fence, an old woman stood leaning on two sticks. I tried to pass slowly. A recently paroled prisoner who was walking behind me, went ahead, leaned over to her and said: “I’ve seen he has already received his documents. He’s coming out soon.”

I was waiting in the distance, trampling on the February snow. This village called Forest Abagur. There are concrete perimeters separating the two colonies, and a small street of wooden log homes for the employees of these colonies. That’s the whole landscape, under the gray sky of the Siberian winter. It’s the perfect illustration of the maxim that describes the relationship between Russian prisoners and their guards,

“We are all doing time, but just spending the night on opposite sides of barbed wire.”

He was standing next to his to his grandmother, and repeated over and over again, amazed, and looking at the beauty of concrete fences, half a dozen cottages, old snow, and the low gray sky: “So that’s what is it -freedom! ” He was smiling confusedly and crying»

Text: Aleksander Glyadyelov

• The main project
  • The exhibition «Mirroland. 150 years ago». Lewis Carroll (from archives of London’s National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, Great Britain), Alexey Alexeev (Russia)
• School of mastery
  • The exhibition «Pictorial school». Semen Prosyak, Мark Milov (Ukraine), , Аleksandr Feldman (Ukraine), Yana Arkhangelskaya (Ukraine), Yuriy Brodski (Germany, Ukraine), Stanislav Tolkachev (Ukraine), Melor Nazarov (Ukraine)
  • The exhibition «Diary of madmen». Members of creative group «Stankovaya Fotografia XXI»: Michael Kalamkarov (Moscow, Russia), Anna Block (Moscow, Russia), Irina Ruzina. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • The exhibition «Time shift». Masters of oil-print: Sergey Chekh (Ukraine) and Oleksii Pishtar (Ukraine)
  • «Essences» (Ukraine). The exhibition of Anastasiya Zavalo.
  • Lithuanian school. Vitas Luckus (Lithuania)
• School of survival
  • Chris Maluszynski «Tory Island, Ireland»
  • Irina Popova «Parting with Kezhma» (Russia, Holland)
  • Alexander Glyadyelov «One and prison» (Ukraine)
  • Loli Kantor «There was a Forest»
  • Jens Olof Lasthein «Waiting for the future» (Sweden)
  • Yevgeniya Belorusets «Gogolevskaya str., 32» (Ukraine)
    
• Alternative view
  • «The Main lesson». Photographic Alternative’s project (UPHA)
    
  • Aleksandra Kanonchenko «7-45. School bus» (Minsk, Belarus)
    
  • The exhibition of Portfolio-Review finalist -2010. «Episodes» Vadim Kozlovskiy (Ukraine)