The memory of childhood forms the main theme of “After an Apple Falls From the Tree, There is a Sound”, a series which Tutatchikova has worked on since 2009. Here, precious summer days of children living in a Russian village surrounded by nature, pass by within beautiful landscapes.

In Russia, there is a tradition of spending summer time in nature – in a grandparents’ house, or in a summer house known as “dacha”. In a land of long and cold winters, summer time has special meaning. Yet as the shining days of summer begin and slip away quietly, children grow up without that knowledge. This modest but shared change in nature’s cycle is metaphorically expressed in the sound that occurs when an apple falls. Ephemeral, but somehow nostalgic, these photographs gently touch the memories hidden in the back of our minds. Created with a universal sensibility that crosses borders, a refreshing book is born.

Design: Yuri Suyama

Size: A4 / Soft cover / 80 pages
Languages: Japanese, English
Price: 2,500 yen
ISBN978-4-907562-09-0 C0070

Year: 2016

Weight: 400g

Elena Tutatchikova
Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1984. Currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. Tutatchikova focuses her interest on the connection between the imagination, walking, and storytelling. Her exhibited work comes in the form of installations using paintings, drawings, ceramics, text, video and photography. After studying classical music and Japanese literature in Moscow, Tutatchikova moved to Japan in 2012, where she finished her master’s and doctor’s degrees in Fine Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She was awarded 2022 Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Special Photographer Award (Hokkaido, Japan) and VOCA 2023 Award Encouragement Prize (Tokyo, Japan). Her publications include photo book “After an Apple Falls From the Tree, There is a Sound” (torch press, Tokyo, 2016), art book “I Hear, Says the Wind” (Ecrit, Tokyo, 2022). Her latest exhibitions include solo shows “On a Windy Path” POST (Tokyo, 2024), “Days With the Wind” Takamatsu Artist-In-Residence (Megijima Island, Takamatsu, Japan, 2021); group shows “Does the Future Sleep Here?――Revisiting the museum’s response to contemporary art after 65 years” the National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 2024), “Art and New Ecology” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, Japan), “Flower of Life” 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (Shizuoka, Japan), “FACES” (SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, Japan, 2021) and “Land and Beyond” (POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan, 2021). 

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