Fjord

Lyudmila Baronina

2019
In storage

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About the work

Fjord is a multilayered compilation of works by Baronina in which the originals are mixed with reproductions of other projects that are intertwined and reproduced in various media. The book comprises several chapters, and through them the reader makes a symbolic journey through the elements of air, earth, and water.

Fjord is a hotel in Montenegro that has been abandoned. The building, like the geographical feature which gives it its name, has become a formative metaphor for the visual narrative constructed by the artist.

Each page of the book is made of several layers of paper and card stuck together, with reproductions of Baronina’s works glued on top. The pages are arranged within the cover of a volume of Gogol’s collected works published in 1956.

The book was created as part of the Garage Library project Single Copy.

About the artist

  • Lyudmila Baronina

    Year of birth: 1988
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    Lyudmila Baronina was born in Szczecinek (Poland). She graduated from the easel painting section of the Academy of Art and Industry of Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts (2013) and has a Master’s degree from the Art Faculty of Kuban State University (2015). In 2016, she studied at Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art. She has had solo exhibitions at HERE on Taganka Gallery (Moscow), ART4.ru Contemporary Art Museum (Moscow), and Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation (Moscow). She was awarded a special prize at the 6th competition for young artists New Projects for Anna Nova Art Gallery (2017).

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