The series she presents “Days of war: a pillow book” is a diary about waiting. “War and Waiting start with the same letter. I am not the mother of a soldier, neither am I the wife of a soldier. But I know what one feels when the beloved one goes to war”: her project is based on a personal experience. Staying in Moscow, she was not able to follow her partner who had gone to cover the war in Libya as a journalist. To fight her worries and her despair, she started making self-portrait of her life on a daily basis, she then drew a parallel with what happened in Libya. The text, voluntarily very formal, like newspapers headlines, contrasts with the photographs, very intimate, recounting the story of her inner space.
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