Post-Soviet visual culture, memory, and archival reconstruction
This body of work examines post-Soviet visual culture as a living archive — not a closed historical chapter but a set of images, symbols, and spatial logics that continue to structure memory and identity. Across three interconnected projects — a publication, a visual booklet, and an animated piece — the work reconstructs and interrogates the visual language of the USSR and its aftermath.
Once a Union (2025) is an editorial publication that weaves together archival imagery, typography, and original text to map the visual grammar of Soviet collective identity. Life in The USSR (2024) operates as a visual booklet: a compressed sequence of images that reconstructs everyday Soviet life through its material culture, graphic ephemera, and domestic interiors. Atomic Weather (2024) uses animation and layered imagery to evoke the psychic residue of nuclear anxiety and technological ambition that defined late-Soviet imagination.
Together, the three works approach cultural memory not as nostalgia but as active inheritance — something that shapes perception whether or not it is consciously acknowledged.
Post-Soviet visual archaeology · Cultural memory as active inheritance · Archival reconstruction and fabrication · National identity as designed artifact