Kris Waldherr Art and Words

Friday, October 15, 6–10 pm: Art Exhibit Open House and Reception. Join us for a night of celebrating Russian and Siberian cultures with champagne, northern cuisine, native arts and crafts, and live chat with the photographers in Yakutsk.

Journey to the Pole of Cold in “On the Road of Bones: Ghosts of the Siberian Gulag Along the Old Kolyma Highway,” an exhibition at Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio gallery in Brooklyn. Through photography and mixed media, “On the Road of Bones” reveals the secret history and hidden landscape of Kolyma, formerly the land of Soviet labor camps and the coldest inhabited region on earth. Stunning new works by young native Siberian photographers Bolot Bochkarev, Nastya Borisova, and Ajar Varlamov trace the remains of the vast highway built across the taiga, tundra, and permafrost of North Asia by Stalin’s prisoners. The exhibition juxtaposes the tragic events of the past with the powerful natural beauty of the frozen land and the daily lives of northern people. Curated by Thomas R. Miller.