The Museum of Contemporary Art of Moscow presents as part of the 11th International Month of Photography in Moscow PHOTOBIENNALE 2016, Kuvady an exhibition by Russian photographer Lucia Ganieva curated by Anna Zaitseva. Project presented by MAMM and Gallery of Schmidt, Amsterdam.
Kuvadi is a small rural village in the republic of Tatarstan, at approximately 1000 km east of Moscow. The community is Muslim, and they also have their own language, a dialect related to the Turkish.
I have portrayed the inhabitants of this village, particularly the women, in their traditional everyday costumes and in front of the fences that surround their properties. The fences and gates are custom made by the owners themselves and they all are different. They are decorated and painted in bright colours with traditional patterns.
