A photo project about a coliving centre where I lived for more than 2 years and during this time I took pictures of the people who lived with me. They changed frequently and in total more than 50 people lived here, and over time the space was transformed. I captured not only the people themselves, but also the emptiness that remains after they leave. I also recorded the things that were left behind, things that people didn't need or didn't think were valuable. Many of the heroes of my photos don't even know each other - they lived in the same place, but at different times.

Name: Valentin Fedorov
Born — Location: Russia — Kyrgyzstan

Valentin is an interdisciplinary artist, born in 1998 in Moscow. Half of his childhood was spent outside Russia: in Turkey and Kyrgyzstan. In 2019, he graduated from IGUMO with a degree in photography and started working as a photo editor. From 2022 to 2024 he lived in Kyrgyzstan, where he created the photo project ‘House 41’, which became the basis of his first solo exhibition.

During this period he taught photography at Compass College and the American University of Central Asia. During 2022-2023, he actively participated in the creation and development of the international exhibition project Rubezh. Since 2024 he has been a student of the ICA Moscow. His works are in the archive of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.