ANDREA HOYER: RECOLLECTIONS Boogie the gestures of women

the gestures of women

atmospheric blackand-white photographs that impressively document the interaction between people and their animals

Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt

Sometimes I succeeded in showing that world: not the real world customary to us

critical and witty look at his native America

ANDREA HOYER: RECOLLECTIONS Boogie the gestures of womenDistilling six years of travel across the former Soviet Union, these images, reminiscent of Tarkovsky and the vision of W. G. Sebald, portray two intertwining dreamtimes: Moscow and the provinces. Hoyer's glimpses of timeless moments of reflection, hope and doubt at the edges of history are not mere mementoes but images in which the daydreams of her subjects seem to leave their mark on the paper. The book is divided into segments of black and white