I first began thinking of this exhibition inspired by the final piece of my previous show, Karaoke about Love. In it, I take the popular form of emotional outpouring, karaoke, while the video sequence draws upon the aesthetic of slideshow clips from the 2000s. The piece consists of three well-known songs celebrating tender feelings: I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, Turuushin Duran by Inna Shagnalaeva, and Pozovi Menya S Soboy by Alla Pugacheva. Three languages — English, Buryat, and Russian are interwoven, performed in one era by three great women. Together, they create a collage of pop culture, memes, and languages, broadcasting and drawing in the non-verbal, vibrating, translucent feeling of love or its impossibility.

Love songs are about farewells, meetings, the past and fantasy. Love songs are always an impulse, a challenge, a longing for connection in solitude.They can be tranquilizing or stimulanting, the guilty pleasure of emptiness. Love songs unite generations, genders, and cultures.

Partially, this exhibition emerged from my reflections on farewells and separations that I and those close to me have experienced in recent years. My loved ones live in different cities, far away. When you don't see someone in person for a long time, the memory of them becomes blurry. A familiar face turns into an icon, fragments of their voice, separate details of their clothes. In the series “Healing Photos”, which began in 2021, I used photographs of my friends. The title was inspired by the tool within the Snapseed app called “Healing,” which is designed to remove unnecessary details from a frame. I “healed” these memories. Figures and faces are blurred, and their textures merge with the background. The clear lines of memory have dissolved and transformed into scattered shadows.

The work 'we all here together' is made from videos shot by loved ones who live far away. I asked them to send me daily and archival video notes. There were street lamps, stones, people I don’t know, dogs and cats, unfamiliar streets. Reflecting in mirrors, they converge into a single video sequence, filling the entire room. In this fragmentary way, I tried to piece together the broken puzzle of my loves.