Turn the Page is a multi-faceted creative project that investigates the sudden and subtle changes across the city through the eyes of the artist, her photography a way for her to understand and explore her new surroundings as an arrival in Ōtautahi from her native Russia.

At the centre of Turn the Page is a beautiful, limited-edition zine – compiled of Sofiya’s photographs of inner-city Christchurch. The risograph printed black and white images of the original shots are overlaid by hand with colour images taken in the years following, highlighting the changes effected upon the locations. The zine speaks beauty of the banal and rundown, spotlighting graffiti and broken windows, Sofiya’s eye focussed on the liminal and underused parts of the city.

The second part of Turn the Page is the larger collaged installation on the Manchester Street bollard supplied by Phantom Billstickers – created from the images of the zine – the subtle overlays and overlapping imagery are alluring in their precision and the striking effects they create, inviting the viewer to explore the city.

The third stage of Turn the Page is the distribution of the zine – like the bollard, the zines exist in the urban landscape through their dissemination across the festival – giving people the chance to pick up their own copy. This multi-layered approach is a fitting one, the work fleeting just like the urban environment that inspired its creation.