Kristina Sergeeva - ‘Before Sunrise’
During a prolonged period of isolation, the artist turned inward, revisiting a vast archive of personal photographs with the quiet ambition of mapping memory through images. What began as a month of reflection evolved into a deeper inquiry: can the fragments of daily life be stitched into a single visual language, a coherent memoryscape?
A lifelong diarist, the artist has long recorded the minutiae of experience through written notes and observations. Two years ago, this impulse extended into photography, evolving into a ritual of daily image-making. The practice became not just an act of documentation, but a way of navigating time—of marking presence.
At the heart of this evolving body of work lies a series of open-ended questions: What is the language of memory? What is the syntax of the image? Why are we compelled to collect our days, to preserve them? These inquiries shape the work as both process and proposition. Through acts of recycling and re-seeing, the artist attempts to locate answers—or perhaps to sit more comfortably within the questions themselves.