Old News by Anastasia Khoroshilova

The exhibition "Old News" brings together three photographic and installation projects by Anastasia Khoroshilova (Moscow, 1978), guiding visitors through a journey across individual and collective memory, historical and social conflicts, and the search for what risks being forgotten.

"Bezhin Meadow"
This project explores the realities of agricultural labour and rural communities in Russia after 1989. Khoroshilova investigates the historical and political dimension of the countryside, marked by repression and profound transformations, focusing on themes of tradition, religion, and fading identities.

"Starie Novosti (Old News)"
The installation Starie Novosti presents nine light boxes with nearly life-size portraits of mothers from Beslan, the Caucasian town struck by the tragic school hostage crisis in 2004. These intense and colourful faces are accompanied by monitors showing fragments of television footage from the event, today almost forgotten. The work highlights the precariousness of collective memory and how quickly society and the media let even the most harrowing tragedies slip into oblivion.

"Notes and Afterthoughts"
Developed over several decades, this series gathers images of “small places”: marginal, invisible, or overlooked spaces that reveal deep connections with European history, between East and West. The exhibition features twelve works dedicated to the Cyprus conflict, unresolved since 1974. Here, photography becomes both note and personal reflection, a fragment of an intimate and political geography.

Through these three bodies of work, "Old News" invites us to reflect on the fragility of memory, the role of photography as testimony, and the responsibility of looking and remembering.