Tatiana Kireicheva - "From three to twelve"

This deeply personal narrative unfolds as a tribute to the artist’s father, whose life was divided across two countries. For four decades, he lived between Russia and the United States, having migrated at a young age and obtained American citizenship. Legal and political constraints prevented his return to Russia, creating a permanent fracture in his sense of belonging.

In his final years, serious illness left him living on the streets of New York, receiving treatment as a homeless man despite having a home and family waiting in St. Petersburg. A former trucker, his life was shaped by the road, an image that becomes central to this project, rendered as a visual collage. The title references the twelve days it took to bring his body back across the ocean.

This is a meditation on homeland and what happens when one’s country turns away, on the meaning of family and the force of fate. In reconstructing her father’s life and death, the artist searches for a place within the story- for herself, for her family, and perhaps for others - but finds instead the outline of a small person caught in the vastness of the world.

A story of searching, of movement, and of profound, inescapable loneliness.