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Photographer Yevhen Nikiforov travelled around Ukraine for three years in search of mosaics from the 1950s to 1980s, the period of Soviet modernism. During this time he visited 109 towns and villages, where he found more than 1000 works. Some of them have already disappeared from public space as a result of Ukraine’s so-called decommunization.
Ukraine began the official decommunization process in April 2015, with legislation outlawing communist and Soviet symbols.
The results of Yevhen’s search were published in a book titled, “Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics”, a joint project of the Ukrainian publishing house Osnovy and Germany’s DOM Publishers.
Hromadske spoke to photographer Yevhen Nikiforov and his publisher, architect Philipp Meuser, about finding the art works, mosaic art and the perception of art from the Soviet period.
