“Labyrinth. My Mother’s Album”, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

They are a Russian artist group which have made hundreds of artworks with different medium. When I was in the General Staff Building of Hermitage Museum, I saw one of their artworks called, “Labyrinth. My Mother’s Album”. It is an installation of a room combined with corridors and a photo series with texts below the photographs is hung on the wall of one side of the corridors. The photos are from the artist’s uncle and the texts are from the memoirs of artist’s mother. The room has only one route, from the entrance to the central room, then lead to the exit. Inside is a bit vintage and neglected, with dull light. The corridors combine together and form a maze-like room.

I really like how they put the content of documents and the surrounding together. The content can be seemed as simple, just personal letters and photos of travelling. However, the environment makes you feel a bit mysterious and curious on what is going next, also enhance you to explore more by walking and looking at every frame carefully, which is suitable to apply the same method to my work also, by creating a space to capture people attention and enhance thinking.

Photo’s from: https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/installations/labyrinth-my-mothers-album/