Between autumn and spring  (Work in progress) | The Kaliningrad region is the westernmost territory of the country, located in Central Europe. It has no direct borders with Russia. Over its centuries-old history, this region has repeatedly changed its name and nationality: Prussia, the Teutonic Order, East Prussia, the Russian Empire, Germany and the Soviet Union. Different historical and socio-cultural contexts are intertwined here so intricately that they formed a special pattern. You can admire it, or you can try to decipher it and then the space removes the mask of provincialism and opens from a completely different side. Everything here is conducive to mystical duality - the fragility of perception. Europe and conventional "backyards", center and periphery, past and present, medieval architecture and modern buildings, forest-steppe and sea coast, Russia and the West - everything seems to exist simultaneously and yet does not exist at all.

The city and the region seemed to be frozen between the complete destruction of the German, the final overcoming of the Soviet Union and the creation of something new. But this is not the monochrome despair that often envelops small provincial towns. Rather, it is philosophical melancholy. Like a mosaic in a dilapidated church of the 15th century, which served as a granary during the Soviet era - a state of eternal off-season and a feeling of stopped time. Future and past forcibly separated by a hazy present. But despite everything, people continue to hope for the better and believe in miracles.