Nostalgia for the stability of the world

Photo exhibition “Anamnesis” by the author Be Zholobove, will be opened in Podgorica, at the “F64” Photography Gallery on Wednesday, April 29th at 19 p.m.

"The 'Anamnesis' project deals with the theme of memory, nostalgia and relationships towards the past through photographs inspired by Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life," says the F64 Gallery.

The author of the exhibition is an art historian. Milos Marjanovic, and the text in the catalogue is signed by the artist, photographer and curator Elena Sukhovyeeva.

“Nostalgia for the stability of the world lies at the heart of Olga Zholobova’s project ‘Anamnesis’. Each photograph is part of the foundation of past Soviet and post-Soviet life. Everything is here: the service behind the glass of a typical showcase, and the famous streets and courtyards of that time. The coast flooded with sun and children’s toys in the apartment. All these flashes from a past life speak of something dear and close. How to preserve the stability of the world? In moments of crisis in our lives, we turn to memory and find stability in it,” says Sukhovyeeva.

She adds that artist Žolobova makes a symbolic gesture in her project - freezing.

“Photographs covered in ice are here a preserved memory, which should not be destroyed by time and change of place. Freezing allows for the creation of such images that could express the awareness of time; show the fear of oblivion, cessation of activity and entropy through a collision with a hard, cold ice surface. Simple images from the home archive acquire a new reality, with their own aesthetics in the form of the ‘icy noise of time’,” says Sukhovyeeva.

Olga Zholobova was born in 1980 in Astrakhan (Russia). Since 2022, she has lived and worked in Belgrade. She came to photography after a twenty-year academic career in the fields of IT and economics. This experience has shaped her systematic and analytical approach to visual storytelling.

After graduating from the "JA Galperin" Photojournalist College (St. Petersburg), Olga continued her training with recognized masters: Sergey Maksimishin, Andrey Polikanov, as well as Viktor Hmelj i Jelena Suhovejeva - an artist whose names have entered the history of world contemporary photography. To date, she has participated in more than 30 collective exhibitions in Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Great Britain and Greece.

"Her artistic practice encompasses a wide range of genres: from conceptual art projects (fine art) to documentary research and reportage photography. Olga's professional experience includes cooperation with the publishing house "Kommersant"," her biography states.