Kronstadt 2003 "CROSS ENCOUNTERS" - Three site-specific projects for the Kronstadt island residency of the National Centre for Contemporary Art St Petersburg.

A HISTORY IN SIX VOLUMES
Old History Books, maps, paper, bread, salt, earth, wood.

"Kronstadt is a place that in its 300 years has amassed almost too much history. The books chosen for the installation are Russian, French, British and German history books covering the period of the emergence of Russia as a European naval power."

BELOW; "Sails" (hanging, left) and "slovo khnudojnika/word of the artist," floor based text installation

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