DESCRIPTION
I started to shoot this project at the beginning of 2019.
My project is dedicated to the study of a mental disorder known as dementia.
I found this disorder in my beloved grandmother.
Dementia is a disease that is virtually untreatable.
The number of patients with this disorder has been increasing every year.
At some point, I had a desire to photograph my granny in the very moments she was talking about her visions. I began to research this issue. My aim was to convey my grandmother's mental state, her real life and imaginary memories of the past, to recreate her visions through photography, video, audio and textual recordings. I wanted to support my grandmother, so she didn't feel herself like an old crazy woman.
And thanks to our mutual collaborative creativity, so far I was succeed. We talk about her illness so that she didn't lose touch with reality. My children were also engaged in this process of communication, which helps my granma so much.I want to tell by my project to those who have relatives with a similar age disorder, because the elderly need our attention, our understanding and support. When phantasmagoria merges with reality, when a person
AUTHOR
Olena Morozova
Artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine
Education
2020 - School of conceptual and art photography MYPH, Ukraine
2020 - SKVOT, Creative training, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 - Dimitri Bogachuk's author's photo courses "Coloristics I", "Coloristics II"
2018 - Kyiv Photography School, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 - Photostudyme, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 - Studio 1, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 - Vivat, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 - Privat Art School Vasilenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 - National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Exhibitions:
2020 - MYPH GRADUATES ONLINE SHOW
2020 - Photo Kyiv Fair 2020, online addition
2020 - "New Generation", Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 - Photo Kyiv Fair 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine, exhibition catalogue
2019 - Kyiv Photography School Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards&Mentions
2021 - TIFA 2020, Bronze
2020 - IPA 2020 First Place
2020 - IPA 2020 Honorable Mention
2020 - Kyiv Photography School Award - Photographer 2020 First Place
2019 - px3 Honorable Mention
2016 - 35Awards, top 500
Publications
2021 - YourDailyPhotograph Jan, 31 http://eepurl.com/hpjGV1
2020 - Vogue Italy, photovouge
2019 - exhibition catalogue of Kyiv Photo Fair 2019
Articles
2019 - Wellnes Magazine: Uniqueness is More Important than Beauty. (Dec. 2019)
