Olga Chernysheva. Acquaintances

“Olga Chernysheva. Acquaintances” is a catalogue designed to accompany her exhibition at Anya Stonelake / White Space Gallery in London. Featuring over 40 images of her photographs and video stills, it includes the transcript of a conversation between Olga Chernysheva and Professor Robert Storr, as well as an introductory text to her work by Dr. Ekaterina Andreeva.

Russian artist Olga Chernysheva captures quotidian life in post‑communist Russia. Embedded within social reality, her photographs carry nonetheless a lyricism and beauty that tacitly transforms the ordinary scenes and sights of and around Moscow into the extraordinary, and at times, seemingly miraculous.

Chernysheva's work frequently expresses a social interest in relation to how her country is changing. In her Moscow Area series she might highlight those things frequently relegated to the edges of society and consciousness, such as a group of the elderly in a home, an old lady entering a church to pray, or the queues of people entering and exiting the Moscow underground metro system.