Prints by Egor Guschin

This work is from the project "Sorrow for Paradise Lost". The project itself talks about nostalgia, the irreversibility of change and the disappearance of something important. Similar to the biblical story of the expulsion from paradise, this series explores the loss of harmony that we experience every time the past becomes unreachable. The project balances between personal memories and universal feelings of loss. The basis was archival photographs, on which a second layer of microscopic scans of substances that are potentially harmful to humans was superimposed - they symbolize the process of destruction of memory, erosion of the past. Then the pictures were supplemented with fragments of scotch with signatures of these substances, like a research diary, after which each work was re-shot on film, completing this process of transformation and loss. Penicillium - green mold. One of the most common genera of fungi in the world, whose representatives are found in various places - in the soil, on plants, indoors, on food, in the seas. It is dangerous for humans when inhaled. Causes toxic damage to the central nervous system, such as seizures.