LANDSCAPE BEFORE, AFTER, AND IN BETWEEN
The title of this work refers to the current state of
two old and adjacent industrial areas in St. Petersburg called
Gavan and Chekushi. Gavan is Russian for 'harbour',
Chekushi translates as 'rammers' (for reasons long
forgotten). This state can be described as one of a certain
historical intermediacy. Evidence and traces of three eras can be
seen here all at the same time – industrial, post-industrial, and
transitional from the former to the latter. The current Russian
political economic system is such that one rather small area can be
home to military industrial behemoths, small workshops, gentrified
spaces of commercial and residential real estate, wastelands, and
slums. In this sense, Gavan and Chekushi are almost a reference
area still waiting to be explored.
See more photographs and a text here (in
Russian).