Date:
23 June 2009 23:00 - 08 August 2009 23:00
Location: London
Category:
Contemporary Art
Photographing states that don’t exist
Follow Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen’s journey through the fringes of the former Soviet empire in a new exhibition at the PM Gallery in Ealing.
The Soviet collapse spawned 15 new countries that are now established members of the international community. However, economic, political and ethnic disparities also gave birth to a series of far less known unrecognised republics, national aspirations and legacies. Jonas Bendiksen started his "multi-year project about states that do not actually exist".
‘Satellites’ is a photographic journey through the scattered enclaves, unrecognised mini-states, and other isolated communities that straddle the southern borderlands of the former USSR. The itinerary goes through places such as Transdniester, a breakaway republic in Eastern Europe, Abkhazia, an unrecognised country on the Black Sea, the religiously conservative Ferghana Valley in Central Asia, the spacecraft crash zones between Russia and Kazakhstan, and the Jewish Autonomous Region of Far Eastern Russia. This is the first time these extraordinary images will be shown in full in the UK.
24 June - 9 August
‘Satellites’
Jonas Bendiksen
PM Gallery
Walpole Park
Mattock Lane
Ealing
London W5 5EQ
Free entry, Tue-Fri & Sun 1pm-5pm & Sat 11-5pm
020 8567 1227
Jonas Bendiksen’s photographs document his journey through the fringes of the former Soviet empire. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen