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Exploring time with Fedorsky’s ‘The Light Under the Door’

Exploring time with Fedorsky’s ‘The Light Under the Door’

Diane Kilgore

In a bold, oftentimes haunting exploration of the passage of Time, Tsar Fedorsky shares a highly personal photo essay "The Light Under the Door" with visitors of the Garner Gallery at the New England School of Photography in Kenmore Square.

The collection developed by the Amherst-educated artist draws upon her understanding of the novel, In Search of Lost Time, also translated as Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. The essence of the essay prompts viewers to contemplate the significant, symbolic use of gray as a visual commentary on the realities of everyday life. Using film in a medium-square format, the photos, shot in black and white encourage contemporaries to examine parameters of the obvious past while questioning the allusiveness of future.

Viktor Tsoi and underground Soviet Rock
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Viktor Tsoi and underground Soviet Rock

The New Noise

For most of the Soviet Union's existence there were two types of musicians: those who worked for Melodiya, the state-run recording company, and the bards, those who recorded and performed underground, unwilling to let the government compromise their art. The bands who recorded on Melodiya inevitably wound up as generic, unthreatening pop, whereas the underground groups embraced subversive lyricism and western-influenced rock and roll.

The Soviet Union, 1981, the Leningrad Rock Club opens under the supervision of the KGB. The intent was to create a center for music that would be government controlled, and therefore prevented from causing controversy. But contrary to their wishes, the club grew to become a haven for musicians where they could discuss, hear and perform subversive, western-style rock music.

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