«Peripheral Vision» is dedicated to Moscow districts, which grew basically during last thirty years. All this time the city has been swallowing its own boundaries and losing its own shape, spreading out with typical suburbs. Even the buildings that just have been built don’t look new anymore, impetuous unnatural growth turned into early aging.
From pedestrian’s viewpoint the lay out of the suburbs often seems illogical and chaotic but in plan or in Google Earth one can see the strict symmetry of these district, which unexpectedly makes them similar to the Egyptian of Aztec cathedrals. Sleepy atmosphere, winter melancholy oddly combine the geometry of panel buildings with Bruegel’s images.
From the beginning of 1990’s the pulse of Moscow became more rapid, the city went through dramatic mutation, but in the first place it had to deal with the downtown, which became elusive and in different meanings artificial. The real, contrast felling of the city is left in periphery, which changes much slower and in a more natural way. These changes are not as distinct, as brutal, it’s harder to see them, but it’s possible to record them.