This project is a deeply personal exploration of exile, memory, and resilience. It reflects on the recurring cycles of dictatorship, censorship, and silenced voices throughout history. In the Soviet era, entire committees decided what could be read, seen, or published, and artists like Joseph Brodsky were persecuted, exiled, and erased from public life. Today, similar repression forces artists, poets and other intellectuals from Russia to flee their homeland and mourn their losses from afar.
In my work, I weave fragments of Brodsky’s and Polozkova’s poetry into drawings and lace-like embroidery, stitching together their words with my own experience of displacement. Hidden under layers of thread and paper, these verses become secret letters, like intimate messages waiting to be discovered. The project is both a personal act of mourning and a quiet resistance against forgetting, inviting viewers to reflect on memory, loss, and the enduring power of the written word.
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