Lars von Trier Project Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

This work is provoked by Lars von Trier Project “Gesamt” - a user-generated video, where internet people were asked to film and send in material inspired by six art pieces. In this case the source of inspiration was Belgian composer César Franck's “Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano №1 Allegreto leg moderato”. It sounds very much like requiem, despite it was actually written as a wedding gift. The idea of fixing photographic portraits to gravestones occurred at the very beginning in the history of photography. It is considered to bear the sign of “coarse realism” and parsimony. In Russia, the least wealthy families used glass covered paper prints instead of enamel-baked metal plates. It is of no surprise that paper suffered from weather conditions a lot. In course of time, faces transform into spots and lines on their way to nothing, step by step loosing human appearance. Dissolving among traces on paper, they themselves become symbols of power of time and weakness of a memory.