Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Rough, Cold and Close: A Russian Poem, an exhibition of color photographs by Lise Sarfati.

The exhibition features 16” x 21” photographs of interiors, buildings, landscapes and people, taken while the artist was living in Russia between 1991 and 2000. The photographs were made in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, as well as in the Vologda region in northern Russia.

Presented in the exhibition are images of wooden houses in the countryside, recalling Russian architecture of the previous centuries, and more recent constructions from the Soviet era, such as metal garages, vegetable cellars and tool sheds. Destroyed and deteriorating interiors and barren landscapes are also included, revealing the undefined territories that characterized the transitional period of post-Soviet Russia. These various locations are juxtaposed with a series of portraits of homosexual boys, referring to a movement of individualization which emerged during the years 1995 – 2000 following the fall of the Soviet Union.