
Xenia Kudrina
Located in part of what used to be imperial stables, ISSMAG gallery is known for its chamber format. With the exhibition program “Camera Solitaria,” curator (and director of Moscow art school Institute BAZA) Svetlana Baskova takes the space-saving one step further, allowing each selected artist to use only one wall per show. For Left by the Fishers of Men, 2022, Xenia Kudrina painstakingly reconstructed an actual interior from her hometown Lensk in Yakutia, a region in Russia’s Far East. The wooden wall panels are lined with semi-empty bookshelves, grotesque masks, fishing nets, faded photos,