Behind the Certain,
photo book, 24 × 31 cm,
2019

Behind the Certain is a project attempting to explore the relationship between city and theatre. Theatrical performance and the life of a city’s everyday routine have similarities in their repetitiveness. When it comes to the con­cept of a stage, the curtain becomes a sepa­ra­tion be­tween fiction and reality. The way of documentation in this photobook is inspired by the concept of Epic theatre by the German playwrighter, theatre director and poet Bertold Brecht. 



The central idea is about em­powering the spec­tators to watch cri­­ti­­cally, rather than just leaning back in their seat and pas­sively con­sum­­ing the performance. He uses different methods, such as breaks in the action, shifts of scenes and locations, show­ing the technics and mechanics of the pr­oduction, to make audi­ence aware, that it is not some illusion of rea­lity, but something con­structed, artificial, that was put on purpose, because it was relevant for the reality of the people watching it.



The book is a collection of photographs of the common Falschfaçade (false fronts), that 
were taken in Moscow in 2019. These simulacra opens questions about the intersection of possible pasts, presents, or futures. The book is a walk through different sceneries of the 
city, while attempt­ing to defamiliarize the ex­isting reality.