Culture in “Oher’ Space or the Life on “Trophy” Territories :: photo exhibition, Kaliningrad

(2008 04 10 17:37)

The exhibition can be visited in the museum “Friedlander thor” from 4 April 2008. Its author – Alexander Sologubov is the candidate of philosophical sciences. He has been studying territories that passed from hands to hands during the history. Sologubov lived on the ‘returned grounds’ in Poland, on Karelian Isthmus, on Sakhalin. During his research he collected materials about those lands and gathered them in the exhibition. He presents photos, books, figures, archival documents and newspaper materials as well as comments. He wants to show both the history and the present of ‘trophy’ territories.   More information in Russian available here

 

 

 

The change of the land’s owner sometimes was an effect of an agreement but sometimes it resulted from conflict or war. If the inhabitants of such a territory left, the place became empty and abandoned, the knowledge, local traditions simply disappeared. Immigrants had to develop “other ‘ cultural space. It is visible both on the organisational level ( systems of settling, land tenure etc.) and on the level of ideas (myths justifying resettlement, symbolic environment, new history). Alexander Sologubov discusses these issues in his exhibition.

 

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