Semen Faibisovich - Contemporary Artists

SPRING IS COMING

SPRING IS COMING The Saatchi Gallery
 

Semen Faibisovich

SPRING IS COMING

1986
Canvas, oil

92х240

“…When I thought about how to record it – after all, you can’t make a sketch – I took my primitive Zenit B camera, which I’d had since I was a student, and began taking photos. At first, when I started this series, I portrayed the looks of my fellow travellers staring somewhere into space, away from the viewer. There was such loneliness in the crowd. When people think that nobody’s watching them, something happens to them: they become isolated and sink deep into themselves. It’s as if people are different, but they all have the same stamp. But then it became interesting to look into their eyes..."

Faibisovich Semyon
 
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