Published: 21 February, 2008, 12:43
Edited: 21 February, 2008, 12:43
“Can I stay at your place tonight? I'll bring my blanket with me”. With this question Anija Titova would visit the homes of her friends and loved ones to take a picture of herself with a blanket in the morning. This was after she came back fro
Anija Titova is a young Russian photographer, a graduate of a photography college in Glasgow. An exhibition of her work titled “Noninvolvement” has opened at the Pobeda gallery in Moscow.
“This blanket is the sort of misunderstanding that occurs between people, although you share the same language, and here you share it in bed. And still you don't understand each other,” Anija says.
With her art she is trying to find ways of overcoming the pain of loneliness and finding a way of understanding and intimacy. Titova says her work is all about the human quest to become closer to each other. People's disconnection with society – and their thirst to overcome it.
The Pobeda gallery is planning to start a series of exhibitions that will discover the new photography trend-setters of tomorrow.
“It's the first display of a debut photographer in our gallery. We want to show the work of those who have a zero rating now. We want to go with them the whole way, from the first performance to world ovations,” explained curator Irina Meglinskaya.
The “Non-involvement” display runs until the middle of March.