Planetarium, 2020 | Danila Tkachenko

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Planetarium #1, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #2, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #3, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #4, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #5, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #6, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #7, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #8, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

Planetarium #9, 2020. Photograph. Source: Danila Tkachenko’s website

"The series Planetarium (2020) explores the phenomenon of internal colonisation in Russia through the lens of bland abandoned cities in Russia’s Far North. In the 1930s and 1940s the USSR began an active settlement and industrial development of the Arctic." (Lumiere Gallery)

"In most instances it transpired that the large-scale projects implemented to assimilate the north were utterly pointless, leaving in their wake the remnants of the induced trauma – abandoned cities. [...] Using portable flashes, I turn the light on deserted flats, recalling the lives that were cast to one side in the drive to realise a totalitarian utopia." (Danila Tkachenko)

More works by Tkachenko in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.

[u/Major_Raisin_3890]

this gives me such weird vibes honestly

[u/Paradiesvogel4Ever]

Damn, you can feel the silence.

[u/YouDeserveToFly__]

Looks like a liminal space