Obraz, Obrez, Ostatok (2021) translates from Russian as image (or appearance), edge (or slice), and remnant. The project reiterates fragments of appropriated Soviet-era images in combination with collected Soviet-era objects. Wall-based installations consist of Soviet-era materials juxtaposed with sections of film stills showing domestic objects, acquired from Soviet films of the 1970s-80s; portions of the constructions were photographed and printed on clear film to then be reincorporated into the constructions.
The project embodies the fragmentation of post-Soviet diasporic experience, where domestic and cultural elements are both remembered and forgotten as distant residues of an era defined by ideologically driven production of material and visual culture.
Sasha Opeiko 