International Center of Photography opens an exhibition by Diana Markosian
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International Center of Photography opens an exhibition by Diana Markosian
Diana Markosian, A New Life, 2019. © Diana Markosian.



NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the International Center of Photography presents an exhibition by Diana Markosian that contrasts the idealized expectation of the American Dream with the often dark and startling reality of the immigrant experience. On view from September 24, 2021 through January 10, 2022, Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara features staged and documentary images, film footage, and family photographs that reimagine the photographer’s autobiographical narrative following her mother’s path from Russia to America with her two children in search of a better life in the 1990s.

Exploring themes of family and memory, Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara is curated by Sara Ickow, ICP’s Manager of Exhibitions and Collections, and David Campany, ICP’s Managing Director of Programs. Presented in the museum’s new building at 79 Essex Street in New York, which opened in January 2020, the fall/winter season at ICP also features the exhibitions Gillian Laub: Family Matters and INWARD: Reflections on Interiority.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the first American television programs to be broadcast in Russia was Santa Barbara (1984-1993). Watching from her childhood home in Moscow with her family, Markosian saw the soap opera as a window into a world of fantasy, escape and the American Dream. Santa Barbara, California, became a mythical place that loomed large in the family imagination, and eventually, through her mother’s sacrifices, it became their home.

“This project is a time machine of sorts, one that goes back to the year 1996, when my mother woke me up in the middle of the night in our tiny home in Moscow. She told me we were going on a trip. The next day, we arrived at our new home in Santa Barbara, California. We had spent years watching the 1980s American soap opera Santa Barbara, and suddenly, we were there,” said Diana Markosian.

In her version of Santa Barbara, Markosian reconstructs and reexamines both the Russia and the America of her childhood, tracing her family’s real-life move as their dream became reality. An extension of her documentary practice, she sees the project as a reliving of her childhood on her own terms, inviting viewers to step into her family’s collective memory, using archival family materials, staged images, and a scripted film written in collaboration with Lynda Myles, one of the original writers of the 1980s television show Santa Barbara.

Markosian grants access to her family’s story, and also to her behind-the-scenes process of casting, wardrobe, and location. The tension between performance and reality, truth and fiction are further complicated by her willingness to pull back the curtain and expose her tools. As it moves from Moscow to America, Santa Barbara tests and challenges the limits of fiction, documentary, and memory.

“Combining different styles and storytelling techniques, Markosian is at the forefront of a new generation of image makers pushing the boundaries of documentary,” said David Campany.

Diana Markosian (b. 1989) takes an intimate approach to her photography and video storytelling, in work that is both conceptual and documentary. Her projects have taken her to some of the most remote corners of the world, and have been exhibited internationally. She holds a Masters of Science from Columbia University in New York. Her work is represented by Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, France, and Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, California.










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