Ksenia Galiaeva's photographs are not only truthful, but also a game with memories: a dreamy representation of reality.
The photos of Ksenia Galiaeva (1976, Pskov, Russia) exude a languid rest. She photographs her immediate surroundings: her mother and father and their dachshund in and around their dacha at the Russian countryside. She herself speaks of 'vanitas still lives, but of people'.
Galiaeva's photographs are reminiscent of holiday photos. But Galiaeva does more because she turns her family members into a myth; an ode to her parents and their way of life. They are the protagonists, accustomed to the camera. Sometimes Galiaeva intervenes. Then she lets the faces of the whole family frame and reflect with mirrors. Her photographs are not only truthful, but also a game with memories: a dreamy representation of reality.
Ksenia Galiaeva lives and works between Amsterdam and Antwerp.