Each picture ca. 90 x 60 cm

For this series, existing photographs from my Future of the Past series were combined with terms

that counteract the utopia of modernity. This is a reference to the fact that architectural forms alone

do not constitute a utopia, or that modernity, in which politics is still concerned with social balance

is a thing of the past.

 

 

лестници – Treppen

сковорода – Pfanne

булавка – Stecknadel

холодилник – Kühlschrank

строительные куьики – Bauklötze

Photo series since 1996, on Alu-Dibond, varying size, often 100 x 70 or 70 x 100 cm

The photographic series Future of the past is concerned with utopian-like buildings and ruins from the socialist past in ex-

communist countries. An end-of-time mood hovers over these images, the subjects of which seem to come from science-

fiction films. The photographs depict towers, housing and office blocks and closed down factories, buildings which earlier

seem to have embodied some belief in future prospects, be they social or economic. In their present, derelict state they appear to embody the utter failure of a social and political utopia.

Photo series since 1997, on Alu-Dibond, varying size, mostly 100 x 70 or 70 x 100 cm

 

The photographic series Future of the past is concerned with utopian-like buildings and ruins from the socia-

list past in ex-communist countries. An end-of-time mood hovers over these images, the subjects of which seem

to come from science-fiction films. The photographs depict towers, housing and office blocks and closed down

factories, buildings which earlier seem to have embodied some belief in future prospects, be they social or eco-

nomic. In their present, derelict state they appear to embody the utter failure of a social and political utopia.

 

Photo series since 1996, varying size, mostly 100 x 70 cm, mounted on Alu-Dibond

 

The photographic series Future of the past is concerned with utopian-like buildings and ruins from the socialist past in ex-

communist countries. An end-of-time mood hovers over these images, the subjects of which seem to come from science-

fiction films. The photographs depict towers, housing and office blocks and closed down factories, buildings which earlier

seem to have embodied some belief in future prospects, be they social or economic. In their present, derelict state they ap-

pear to embody the utter failure of a social and political utopia.