It was February 2018 when, at the height of one of the coldest winters in recent decades, Sasha R. Gregor boarded the “Rossiya” train. He started the longest and most legendary railway route in the history of transport: the Trans-Siberian. A colossal journey awaited him, a feat of engineering and a witness to history, connecting old Europe with the waters of the Pacific by slowly crossing the beauty of the Urals, the silence of the taiga and the immensity of the steppes.
Between the minimalism of the snowy landscapes and the brutalism of the industrial cities of the former USSR, the Trans-Siberian refers us to the ancestral struggle between the intelligence of the human being and nature’s power. Since the invention of the steam engine in the Industrial Revolution, the tension between man and the natural world has always favoured the former. But technological evolution has long shown its pernicious side and we are now facing a new phenomenon: the paradox of progress.
Kremlin, Moscow
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-17.8 – -2.1 ºC] Ambient temperature -14.8 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Stalin statue, Moscow
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-12.2 – -23.4 ºC] Ambient temperature -11.7 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Lenin mausoleum, Moscow
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [16.4 – -16.7 ºC] Ambient temperature -13.4 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Vladimir the Great, Moscow
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [9.4 – -40.0 ºC] Ambient temperature -32.9 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Vladimir the Great, Moscow
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [1.0 – 22.7 ºC] Ambient temperature 11.2 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Moscow to Kazan
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [17.1 – 10.6 ºC] Ambient temperature 12.8 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Kazan
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [28.9 – 10.5 ºC] Ambient temperature -22.4 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Kazan to Yekaterinburg
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-0.2 – 33.9 ºC] Ambient temperature -12.4 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Yekaterinburg
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-4.7 – 40.0 ºC] Ambient temperature -8.7 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Yekaterinburg
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [17.4 – -19.9 ºC] Ambient temperature -12.6 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Novosibirsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [26.9 – 17.7 ºC] Ambient temperature 23.6 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Novosibirsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-13.3 – -20.7 ºC] Ambient temperature -14.8 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Novosibirsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [5.9 – 22.1 ºC] Ambient temperature 10.4 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Irkútsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [-9.5 – 40.0 ºC] Ambient temperature -16.2 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Khuzhir, Baikal lake
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [14.6 – -29.6 ºC] Ambient temperature 8.4 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Ulán-Udé
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [42.7 – -36.2 ºC] Ambient temperature 35.6 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Chitá to Khabaróvsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [15.4 – 2.9 ºC] Ambient temperature 5.5 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Khabaróvsk
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [8.3 – -38 ºC] Ambient temperature -5.7 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Vladivostok
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [21.6 – -40.0 ºC] Ambient temperature 9.2 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Vladivostok
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [22.4 – 32.7 ºC] Ambient temperature -3.1 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5
Vladivostok
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Thermography
Thermal gradient [11.7 – -3.0 ºC] Ambient temperature -5.6 ºC
Fine art giclée print with pigmented inks
Dimensions 60x80cm / 90x120cm
Edition of 5