Seven landscapes of Nickel like seven days of the week where we are moving from the totally industrial and pretty gloomy Monday to Sunday powered by mighty northern nature. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the stages of this transformation. The nature begins to invade the picture gradually and fully conquers it by Sunday.

The term «rusted» is used more to describe the visual rather then the conceptual part of the project, although rust is a state of iron between brand-new and decaying and like everything in The Rusted North is connected with transformation as opposed to being still and stable. While rusting things we humans no longer need are coming back to nature, get overgrown by moss and herbs like parts of a sunken ship. Nature is taking back everything the mankind has thrown away as garbage.

From the gloomy colors of industrial Monday, the first day of a working week, the artist leads us to the joy of bright and juicy Sunday, full of water, sky, plants and rocks. Although it would be completely wrong to call this gradient made by Tatiana Yezhova a beautiful vs. ugly opposition, because beauty is so diverse. The low-key, unobvious beauty of Nickel streets will inevitably strike you. In a while. Maybe after a week in Nickel or so.

The project was implemented at Nickel Art Residence. The final exhibition was held in the Pasvik State Nature Reserve Visit Center, Nickel, Russia.
Curator: Sasha Kremenets