Recollecting the dreams… (video installation).
The project presents only a single-act and rough sadistic gesture. It’s like an exhalation. Anguish, sharpness, gloom, cry, blood, groan – everything is inherent in them.

The associative memory works in this dream – the blackthorn, red shirt, snow-white flowers on the bushes, axe, and branches with thorns. The blooming blackthorn, which used to be a symbol of divine and cleansing pain, now is only a recollection.

Yuri Vasiliev
Born 1950, Kaliningrad, Russia. Has been member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1980. Since 2001 realizes his author project “Russian Red” (video, photo, performance, installation), which was shown for the first time at the exhibition “Prussian Blue” (San-Susi palace, Potsdam, Germany). The project was presented at more than 30 Russian and international exhibitions. Prizes: 2003 Grand Prix of the international jury of Media Forum of the 25th Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia); 2005 nominee of the prize in the filed of contemporary art “Innovation”, nomination “visual artwork”, NCCA, Moscow. Works are in private and state collections, including: Kaliningrad Art Gallery (Russia), National Russian Museum (St.Petersburg, Russia); Contemporary Art Museum KIASMA, (Helsinki, Finland).