Jacki Ochs, Beach, Leningrad, 1985.
Jacki Ochs, Soviet Artists, (left to right) Gustav, unidentified woman, Timur Novokov, Radion Tolya, Sergei Bugayev (Afrika).
Jacki Ochs, Kitchen Cabinets in a Communal Apartment, Leningrad, 1985.
We took a walk, bus ride, walk, bus ride, walk to an apartment in the middle of Leningrad, up many flights of stairs—no speaking, so the neighbors would not hear a foreign language as we passed their doors.
The filmmaker and photographer discusses the return to her work on Russia’s inmates.
“I’m interested in subterranean culture that says ‘I will trick you’ to official culture, ‘I will play you.’”
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Spalding Gray, Angela Carter, Rodion Zaveriyayev, and Joan Mitchell.
We need our own space to think and digest what we see. And we also have to trust the viewer and trust the power of the object. And the power is in simple things. I like the kind of clarity that that brings to thought. It keeps thought from being opaque.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
