To a Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls: Artist Talk with Alexander Mouton
Posted: October 6, 2022
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 6 p.m.
Photographic Center NW, 900 12th Ave.
In 2013, 2016 and 2019, Alexander Mouton drove through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia, photographing historical sites where Stalin and Hitler’s murderous policies marked the land and architectural remnants of the subsequent Soviet occupations. He talks about this work, which he developed into a limited-edition archive of thirteen different, related photo books titled To A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls. Each photo book explores the unique possibilities of combining and juxtaposing images and texts according to its particular structure. How can new historical perspectives on the synergy between Hitler and Stalin’s terror resonate in the contemporary moment? With the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, this question is more pertinent now than ever. Free with RSVP.