Tatiana Akhmetgalieva

Happy childhood, video installation

Tatiana Akhmetgalieva.
Happy Childhood.
2010.
Video installation.
1’30”, sound Ivan Vellansky.
Artist’s collection, Saint-Petersburg

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Tatiana Akhmetgalieva. Happy Childhood. 2010. Video installation. 1’30”, sound Ivan Vellansky. Artist’s collection, Saint-Petersburg

Moscow, 1.04.2010—25.04.2010

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Na Solyanke Gallery

109028, Moscow, 1/2, b. 2 Solyanka st. +7 (495) 621-55-72, е-mail: solgallery@yandex.ru

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Tatiana Akhmetgalieva “Happy childhood”

Our childhood and adolescence were spent in the courtyards. We were growing, the city was changing. One summer morning we woke to hear unfamiliar sounds: trucks standing in the yard, the scrape of iron, workers dragging different structures across the ground, welding in full swing. By evening you couldn’t get near our house. Every kid in the district came running, one after the other. They hurried to see the first children’s playground on our newly built estate and ride on the high iron swings that defied every known law, if only once. From that day on I can’t remember seeing our yard empty or deserted. We grew up under that watchful iron gaze, we became different people as the swings gradually rusted over and fell apart. For many years children’s cries and the squeak and rasp of metal could be heard from our apartment windows, day and night...

Tatiana Akhmetgalieva

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