Born in 1956, Glyadyelov came of age during the twilight years of the Soviet Union and began his serious photographic practice during the tumultuous 1990s. This generational positioning proved crucial to his artistic sensibility. Unlike older Soviet-era photographers who had to navigate the constraints of socialist realism, and unlike younger artists with no direct memory of the USSR, Glyadyelov occupies a liminal positionn— old enough to remember the Soviet system, young enough to have spent most of his creative life in independent Ukraine.
Oleksandr will be present for a book signing and talk session at Festivalzentrale – Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste.