Exhibition of Zalman Shklyar. Moscow Freeze Frame 16+

Lecture Corner Gallery, 2nd floor

Personal exhibition of Zalman Shklyar in Artmuse - a street photograph of Moscow from 40 frames. He stops the fast pace of life of people in the largest metropolis in order to rethink it and see a different, inner world of this city.

In the context of Zalman’s work, a “freeze frame” is not so much a camera technique that can last only a few seconds in cinema, but an attempt to expand time boundaries with the help of street photography and allow the imagination to imagine the further development of a captured moment, plot, event… Stopped With the camera, time becomes poetic and dynamically flexible.

A series of photographs presented at the exhibition conveys the atmosphere of a noisy, lively, motley city that inspires the photographer every day. The exhibition can evoke very exotic impressions for the St. Petersburg viewer: it is like a weekend trip to the city of contrasts, in which time = money, luxury and service go side by side, eccentricity and uniforms, garages and skyscrapers, and everything that seems to be decoration or a mask, really real. Renowned documentary photographer Bill Rauhauser, after viewing Shklyar’s black-and-white works, said that they reminded him of the noir genre of feature films. And Thomas Hoepker from the Magnum photo agency noted his interesting approach to people when shooting: Zalman knows how to show moments of life without attracting any attention from others.

The exhibition will run daily until March 28 with free admission. Curator - Marina Gurevich.