SUSHILKA
In the summer of 2023 during lunch breaks I was walking among low five-story residential buildings in the Cheryomushki microdistrict in Krasnodar. Almost every yard was equipped with a «sushilka» – a pair of pipes, poles or trees and a rope stretched between them.
A local woman explained me that only the residents of the first floors in the neighborhood have to dry things outside because there are no balconies in their small apartments.
«Sushilka» is a photo project about people who we know nothing about except for where they live and what they are ready to dry outside their secluded apartments.
An impressively considerable sized bra and a dressing gown with a floral print reminded me of my grandmother, and unwashed stains on T-shirts I associated with process of eating as they say «white clothes like to get stained».
Hundreds of personal items hang on the dryers on the street: towels, bed linen, T-shirts, trousers, underwear, outerwear and even shoes. These things can belong to families, couples, single people, young and old – although in reality we do not know who their owners are.
A local woman explained me that only the residents of the first floors in the neighborhood have to dry things outside because there are no balconies in their small apartments.
«Sushilka» is a photo project about people who we know nothing about except for where they live and what they are ready to dry outside their secluded apartments.
An impressively considerable sized bra and a dressing gown with a floral print reminded me of my grandmother, and unwashed stains on T-shirts I associated with process of eating as they say «white clothes like to get stained».
Hundreds of personal items hang on the dryers on the street: towels, bed linen, T-shirts, trousers, underwear, outerwear and even shoes. These things can belong to families, couples, single people, young and old – although in reality we do not know who their owners are.