Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the first American television programs to be broadcast in Russia was Santa Barbara. Watching from her childhood home in Moscow, Diana Markosian saw the soap opera as a window into the American Dream.
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International Center of Photography
September 24, 2021 to January 10, 2022
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Exhibition details

n her version of Santa Barbara, Markosian reconstructs and reexamines both the Russia and the United States of her childhood, tracing her family’s real-life move as their dream became reality. An extension of her documentary practice, the project allows Markosian to relive her childhood on her own terms, inviting us to step into her family’s collective memory, using archival family materials, staged images, and a scripted film.

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Location

International Center of Photography
79 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002

About The Artist

Diana Markosian (b. 1989) takes an intimate approach to her photography and video storytelling, in work that is both conceptual and documentary. Her projects have taken her to some of the remotest corners of the world, and have been featured in National Geographic MagazineThe New Yorker, and The New York Times. She holds a M.S. degree from Columbia University in New York. Her work is represented by Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, France, and Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

Image: Diana Markosian, The Arrival, 2019. © Diana Markosian