Nikita Kadan. Yesterday, Today, Today. 2012–2014. Installation

Author
Year created
2012–2014
Materials
marble, granite, colored tape, museum vitrines, photo, video
Work Description

Yesterday, Today, Today derived from the subway back in the Soviet times that was conceived as a “pleasure dome”, a palace for the working class and symbol of equality for all. The expensive materials and wonderful decorative aspects bore witness to the greatness of the Soviet ideology. Today those beautiful marbles palaces have been transformed to fit a new neo-liberal capitalistic ideology, being the place for self-adhesive film presenting advertisement.

Fear and Hope, exhibition view, 2014, PinchukArtCentre, Кyiv
Photographed by Serhii Illin
Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2014
Fear and Hope, exhibition view, 2014, PinchukArtCentre, Кyiv
Photographed by Serhii Illin
Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2014