This project was born from a long-time collaboration with my friend, a writer and a historian Kirill Kobrin. In 2016 he came up with an idea to combine his essays, written between 2013 and 2016 and dedicated to different art events happening in London, into a single piece. His book Art Territory of London is a mixture between a diary and a city-guide. Kirill’s position, as he himself mentions in the book’s introduction, is a one of a flaneur. Taking as a point of departure London’s museums and galleries, his text wanders from point “A” to point “B”, investigating by the way historical and sociological circumstances in which London had been created.
My position is a similarly of a “flâneuse”. Equipped with my camera, I follow Kirill’s text creating continuous strips depicting my journey. Photographs are pieced together creating a stretched image of a city. This is a gaze of a wanderer. Instead of creating a moment or a snapshot, photography, here is employed to reflect on the continuity of a walk. Sometimes photographs are pieced together to create a mosaic-like effect, depicting London through a multiplicity of different stories and narratives. The viewer is invited to look in between, and to respond not so much to an image itself, as to the relationships, existing between the images.