Galerie Les filles du calvaire is that includes the work of photographer Diana Markosian in an exhibition entitled Santa Barbara. She was first exhibited at MoMa in San Francisco, ICP in New York, FOMU in Antwerp, and Photographs Vevey in Switzerland. .
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, one of the first American television packages to be broadcast in Russia was referred to as Santa Barbara. The photographer’s family looked at this soap opera as a window on the world and on the American dream, defined as «a country through which life can be better, richer and fuller for everybody» by the writer James Truslow Adams in his novel Epic of America (1931). This dream was certainly for a lot of a supply of hope and renewal. The potential of leaving and attaining the inconceivable. Nevertheless, this quest was not all the time made from joys however typically of sufferings and sacrifices: leaving relations, pals, tradition and valuable roots. The artist thus decides to go away for California and succeeds because of the sacrifices of her mother.
Santa Barbara, with its special aura, is undoubtedly a legendary place for her household. This exhibition paperwork, reconstructs, and re-examines both the Russia and the USA of her childhood, a true photographic fable between dream and reality.
« Santa Barbara par Diana Markosian » Galerie Les filles du calvaire
17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, Paris 3e
Du 28 octobre au 17 décembre 2022
Flora Di Carlo
L’article DIANA MARKOSIAN : A DREAM COME TRUE est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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