International events: The exhibition “Harbin between the past and the future” opened in Vladivostok

In the Main building of the Primorsky museum of Arsenyev (Vladivostok) opened the exhibition "Harbin between the past and the future" of the Russian of all Chinese cities. The authors - photographers Inna Korotkova, Jasmine Limmeran and Van Syaoten – they use technology in their work, which allow seeing Harbin in unusual and unexpected angles, and even combine different periods of its history. The fate of this city since the end of the last century is closely linked to Russia, with Russians, who worked on the CER, and with those who are forced to leave because of the coming revolution the Far East.    

The exhibition gives the opportunity to see how this "Russian city with the fate of the Chinese" has changed over the centuries, and enjoy its beauty, viewing pictures, made in a multi-dimensional plane.

Inna Korotkova pictures Harbin of two eras. Her works are interactive, and each consists of two paintings: in the modern color photos Harbin superimposed black and white tie, depicting the same point of the city, but at the beginning of the XX century. Exploring the city in such an interesting way it is easy to see the buildings that remained untouched by time, while others require urgent restoration.

Works of Jasmine Limmerman and Wang Syaotenya are made in a special style, which allows capturing the perspective of the city in a two-dimensional plane. The main feature of these images is that the authors do not use the computer processing. Aliasing made long preparation for each shot with the camera and special mirrors and glass.

The exhibition also presents objects from the collections of the Primorsky State Museum. Among them - the porcelain (Chinese vases of the late XIX century, plate production of the Kuznetsovsky plant in Harbin, made in 1916 specifically for training battalion, Brigadier-CEL), samples of Orthodox literature Harbin publishers selection of holiday issue of "abroad", old press paperweight in the form of dragons, manufactured in Harbin in 1912.