Arnold van Bruggen: Olympic Games in Sochi will be the strangest in history

The Moscow opening of "The Sochi Project" photo exhibition of Dutch authors Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen was attended by about 100 people. The spectators could communicate by a video bridge with the visitors of a parallel exhibition, opened at the same time in Amsterdam, where the authors of the project were present, who had been denied Russian visas.

The exhibition will run until October 24 on the daily basis, except Mondays and Tuesdays, from 1 to 8 p.m.; the entrance is free.

Both exhibitions – in Moscow and Amsterdam – present twelve photographs made in different years under the "The Sochi Project". According to the organizers, this is only a small part of what had been intended to show to the Russian public initially.

"We've been working on this project since 2009. We wanted to show a dry history of the Olympic Games. Given all the questions, I think it will be the most bizarre Olympics in history. I hope that we could somehow show the contrasts of Sochi and the problems of the small country of Abkhazia and Northern Caucasus as a whole," Arnold van Bruggen said at the opening ceremony.

He also announced the set up of "The Sochi Project" website, which presents the works, and expressed hope that it will be of interest not only to the Dutch, but also to Russians.