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They are recognisable as human figures from her citation in the title and, as the title also suggests, are returned to life through the photographs, transformed into shoots of plants breaking through the deathly ice. 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Anabiosis is a state of suspended animation into which some animals go during extreme conditions, reviving later. This may be read as a metaphor for looking forward to a thaw in artistic freedom.","date":{"text":"22/10/2016","earliest":"2016-10-22","latest":"2016-10-22"}},{"text":"Olga Chernysheva (born Moscow 1962)\r\nUntitled from the series Anabiosis: Fishermen-Plants\r\n2000\r\n\r\nThese photographs come from a series entitled Anabiosis, meaning a state of suspended animation. They show the nearly indistinguishable shapes of a solitary Muscovite fisherman [left] and a plant [right] wrapped up in protection from the freezing cold near Red Square. Chernysheva's juxtaposition of these images heightens her portrayal of what a critic has described as \"the diffuse area of life between the struggle for survival and forms of recreation and pleasure, so often found in an extreme climate such as Russia's\". \r\n\r\nGelatin-silver print\r\n\r\nPurchased from the Sir Cecil Beaton Fund 2004\r\nMuseum no. E.3555, 3556-2004","date":{"text":"07/10/2004","earliest":"2004-10-07","latest":"2004-10-07"}},{"text":"On the snow-covered ice, a solitary Russian fisherman sits wrapped in fabrics and plastic to protect himself against the freezing cold. Similarly, a tree, uncannily human in outline, is covered to preserve it through the ravages of winter. Both must be deciphered before the forms begins to appear from the layers enshrouding them. These images come from a series entitled Anabiosis, meaning a return to life after apparent death. 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