8 of July 2015 in the framework of a public festival "After Sawmills" Museum of Soviet naive present a new exhibition "Growing up: Chronicles of the ordinary and the exceptional." This project – is an opportunity to look at historical events from the other side – from the generation that grows up.
The exhibition on an example of a number of children's documents from personal archives and private collections tells stories of formation of consciousness of children and adolescents in Soviet culture.
"Every child is living a similar stage of maturation, and drawings and texts created by children and adolescents bear as a seal of the era and, in general – cultural tradition as well as seal of biology. Child care, education, training, as well as the world of children, are not subject to only install certain social and cultural policy and pedagogy. Childhood of "Soviet child" is open outside: many practices associated children from the USSR with their parents and grandparents who grew up in pre-revolutionary times, and personal development passes certain psychological stages common for children of different ages and countries, "- said the exhibition curator Marina Sokolovskaya.
Growing up, the child discovers the world: the body, the house, children's games, the legacy of the culture in which he lives. The space of his life expands , and personal images in the drawings and texts are interwoven with images of culture, experience of everyday life are associated with experiences of significant social phenomena and events. In each age connection of the personal and the social are built differently.
"We do not accidentally offered this theme to the festival organizers. Children in the Soviet Union were early included in a collective practices, grew in the complex world of constant modernization of childhood. Wars, revolutions,repressions that accompanied the childhood of generations gave rise to feeling of instability. A study of children's album of the Soviet era – is an opportunity to get to know the history of Russia ", – says member of the Festival of Nadezhda Agisheva.
The exhibition will feature children's drawings, Maiden albums, teaching practices drawing in Russia (USSR) in the first half of the XX century, especially in the 1930-1950's, from museums and private collections, from personal archives.
The exhibition runs until 26 of August 2015.
Free admission.
