In the project The Updated Amber Mayana Nasybullova explores the mechanisms of personal and collective memory. Just as amber is used to preserve the memory of distant time, conserving flora and fauna objects that are tens of millions of years old, epoxy helps to fix time so that it won't be forgotten tomorrow. By preserving personal and symbolic objects of the past and present in this technique, the artist captures the trends of the fleeting reality.
‘Amber is a language of history and memory, I am using it to transmit the problems of its selectivity’, Mayana says.
The Dom Kitoboya Museum is a place that preserves memories of Soviet-era Kaliningrad from the 1960s to the 1980s. The exhibition is not so much a collection of items donated by residents of the city, but a kind of chronicle of collective memory based on the stories of Kaliningrad residents.
The exhibition’s opening will take place on 2 December. Public program includes creative meetings and workshops with the artist.
