Moscow Museum of Modern Art 25 Petrovka street Moscow Russie
Anastasia Khoroshilova's vision as a photographer is characterised by the immediacy of her creative path. This path is indivisible from her personal life, from the drama of her biography, which is connected to the socio-cultural "wanderings" of the artist. Anastasia Khoroshilova encounters the people, things and landscapes in her photography at eye level. She never takes recourse to unusual perspectives, shooting from above or below. Khoroshilova shows us people at eye level, but she does not unmask them; she never gets too close. The contemporary Russian Federation stands before the photographer's camera in all its diversity: Mordva, Tatars, Adyghe, Cossacks, Finnish Karelian groups. All of them embossed by the Soviet Union. This is the main focus in the series "Russkie". Anastasia Khoroshilova's works were shown at multiple international exhibitions amongst others at the National Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia), at the Centro per l' Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato (Italy), at the Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany) and at the M. Margulies Collection at the Warehouse (Miami, USA)
(parts of the text by Vitaliy Patsyukov and Lothar Altringer)