Original artwork description:

The paintings of historic decay are likely to be seen as a reminder of how far a culture could go to be destructive. As Nietzsche wrote: ‘history belongs to the man who preserves the conditions under which he came into existence for those who are to come after him’. Confronting the Soviet past in a positive memento is my warning about present nationalistic ideology in today’s Russia. This is as well as my effort to come to an understanding and acceptance of my national identity and belonging through the use of Russian historical knowledge and to challenge to a great extent the absence of collective political memory, loss of reality and to expand the uncertain political and social future of my country, focusing on the restorative power of the art.