The past is unreliable, especially your own. Readers of the sixth and last volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical novel project can learn this, for example, in which the star of the new memoir wave switches to the meta level and reflects on writing from memory. When a great-uncle approaches him and accuses him of misrepresentation, Knausgård finds himself reeling: Were the circumstances of his father’s death really as bad as he described them? Or did he overdo it? The photographer and filmmaker Diana Markosian describes precisely these ambiguities, inaccuracies or fuzziness that those who work on their own past have to deal with as the most exciting moment in their art. With the “Santa Barbara” project, she has set herself no less than healing her broken family. To do this, she had to put pieces of very different puzzles together.
Russian photographer Diana Markosian tells about her family – culture
