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Monday, July 8, 2019

NEGATIVE SQUAR


     25 years ago, Ukraine started the long process of decommunization–to purge the vestiges of its Soviet past. However many statues are toppled, streets and cities renamed (such as my hometown), or parties outlawed, the effects of a 70-year history are not so easily erased. Using photo negatives found in a Soviet archive, this instillation is an homage to the Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich, himself at times a victim of Soviet oppression, and his futurist Black Square. Negative Square represents an effort not to look away from the past, but directly into and through it. For the [Soviet] world may die, but for us there is no end.



































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