{"product_id":"xenia-ostrovskaya-correspondances-2","title":"Xenia Ostrovskaya — Correspondances #2","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy work investigates how memory circulates across objects, species and urban environments — an ecology of memory in which remembrance is not solely a human prerogative but a distributed, interspecies value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI begin with historical postcards, that once functioned much like today’s Instagram. Mass-produced and widely circulated, they carried personal narratives across continents, only to later disappear in cardboard boxes on flea markets, private attics and antique stores. I treat these postcards like archives of everyday life — fragments that have survived great wars, departures, natural catastrophes and the erosion of private histories. By painting animals and plants onto these images, I interfere with the historical photograph and revise its context. This disruption activates the postcard anew. The animals become mediators of memory: they enter the past as agents who reopen it, reanimating personal and collective traces that might otherwise disappear. This is a form of upcycled memory — bringing forgotten materials and private histories into a new cycle of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI examine ideas of heritage and explore how memory migrates and regenerates — how it survives not only in humans, but between species, images, and landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xenia Ostrovskaya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51657894330674,"sku":"CORR26-XENIA-OSTROVSKAYA-2","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/4869\/8160\/files\/Xenia_Ostrovskaya_02.jpg?v=1787758186","url":"https:\/\/thecurators.com\/es\/products\/xenia-ostrovskaya-correspondances-2","provider":"The Curators","version":"1.0","type":"link"}