Overshadowed
This body of work explores left-over memory spaces in post-Soviet places. The memory landscape is both a fragmented and liminal space, where the past continues to cast a long shadow over the present. But you have to search closely to find it. There are no signs to direct you, no map to guide you.
Soviet-era monuments, which once took centre-stage, and enabled the ‘theatricalization of memory’ now occupy mostly left-over spaces. As memory residua, they occupy a place that is not a place. They embody aspects of liminality; visible but unseen, valuable but not valued, everywhere and nowhere. They appear at odds with a landscape that increasingly reflects the socio-economic and political progress of more recent times. And as nature and progress continue to encircle and encroach upon the space they occupy, their future looks increasingly uncertain, and their growing impermanence increasingly evident.
Soviet-era monuments, which once took centre-stage, and enabled the ‘theatricalization of memory’ now occupy mostly left-over spaces. As memory residua, they occupy a place that is not a place. They embody aspects of liminality; visible but unseen, valuable but not valued, everywhere and nowhere. They appear at odds with a landscape that increasingly reflects the socio-economic and political progress of more recent times. And as nature and progress continue to encircle and encroach upon the space they occupy, their future looks increasingly uncertain, and their growing impermanence increasingly evident.