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Pam Skelton. Burning Poems
Curator: Elena Zaitseva
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The video installation ‘Burning poems’, created due to the impression that the Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fontanny Dom, St Petersburg, had on Pam Skelton, presents itself as three projections, connected to each other as though they were episodes, which are based on real events in the life of the poet in the 1930s-40s. The sequence of the events is not established, as if each episode were timeless and beyond any particular space. The ambiguous relation between text and object, word and image (our impressions of a museum with its furnishings, letters, and paraphernalia depend not just on what we see on display so much as on what we have read) is a topic that has a rich tradition in Russian art. . It was dealt with by Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Andrei Monastyrsky and together with them, the whole set of Moscow romantic conceptualists. . As such, it is all the more interesting to present in Moscow an English artist's project whose artistic investigation is to consider the complex relationship of history and memory, both personal and collective- the gap between the memories of individuals who happened to be party to a historical event and the way this event is represented in the collective memory of succeeding generations.
With the participation of the Anna Akhmatova State Literary and Memorial Museum in Fontanny Dom
project supported by
- The British Council, Russia
- Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London
- 24 PRINT_SERVICE www.24print.ru
- HONKA www.honka.ru
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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