The series "Frozen time. Moldova", 2019
In 2019, I attended an international symposium in Gagauzia (Moldova), in the tiny town of Chadyr Lunga.
Time is frozen, you breathe in a haze from the heat, the air literally melts, turtle doves are cooing on the roofs. My head becomes a little wadded up, my thoughts become dull, fade into the background.
Time has stopped here: Soviet architecture, Soviet transport, Soviet granary. It's like I got into a distant childhood: also, time does not flow noticeably, and all the fuss goes to the secondary roles. Everything is slow. Old Czech planes, burnt-out grass and Lenin froze.
But somewhere in the distance you can hear the trampling of horses. An amazing place, because it is in this tiny place that the best thoroughbred trotters in the world are bred. And then, forgotten by everyone except one watchman, an old non-functioning airport with a cemetery of equipment, where weddings come in search of a beautiful picture for instagram… But this airport was an international one with a connection to the whole of Europe and the USSR. I accidentally found out that the planes plied even to Berezniki in the Perm Region. Small aircraft of the past...
Time is frozen, you breathe in a haze from the heat, the air literally melts, turtle doves are cooing on the roofs. My head becomes a little wadded up, my thoughts become dull, fade into the background.
Time has stopped here: Soviet architecture, Soviet transport, Soviet granary. It's like I got into a distant childhood: also, time does not flow noticeably, and all the fuss goes to the secondary roles. Everything is slow. Old Czech planes, burnt-out grass and Lenin froze.
But somewhere in the distance you can hear the trampling of horses. An amazing place, because it is in this tiny place that the best thoroughbred trotters in the world are bred. And then, forgotten by everyone except one watchman, an old non-functioning airport with a cemetery of equipment, where weddings come in search of a beautiful picture for instagram… But this airport was an international one with a connection to the whole of Europe and the USSR. I accidentally found out that the planes plied even to Berezniki in the Perm Region. Small aircraft of the past...
