Photo exhibition "Home from heaven"

Saratov artists present the photo exhibition Home from Heaven. Photo expedition to Lake Elton.

Participants in the exhibition project are 13 Saratov photo artists, members of the Creative Union of Artists of the Saratov Region (regional branch of the TSHR), who received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the implementation of a creative project.

About the creative idea:

Salt lakes are beautiful and amazing, they produce an alien sensation and attract creative people.

Currently, Lake Elton is located in the Volgograd region. But at some point in history it was located within the borders of the Saratov province and was (to a certain extent) “city-forming”. Salt was brought to Saratov, traded, exchanged, and rich. Saratov salt tycoons determined the economic policy of the province. The saline bull has become a symbol of the Pokrovskaya Sloboda - now the city of Engels, Saratov Region.

Salt is also a philosophy, an artistic metaphor. This is what remains in the dry residue when water leaves. Salt of the earth…

Saratov artists will try to reflect on this topic in this exhibition project. A film has been prepared specially for the opening of the photo exhibition: about the mysterious Elton Lake, about the expedition participants, creative design, dreams and hopes of modern artists.

According to the results of the experimental creative workshop of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Russian Artists.
The head of the workshop for PAX and TSHR - Konstantin Khudyakov.
The project manager is Sergey Karmeev.
Design - Mikhail Gavryushov.
The project coordinator is Svetlana Kuznetsova.

The exhibition is exhibited at the A.P. Bogolyubov Saratov Art College (Saratov, Universitetskaya, 59)

Date of exhibiting: November 16-30, 2016
Opening: November 16 at 16.00 hours.