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This project let you interact with the time when landscapes and shapes were treated as enemies of the state, confiscated, and burnt.

So are their authors, who were discarded from society, forbidden to work, sent to Siberia, put into asylums.



for externalising their thoughts


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next two stories are just two brushstrokes in the canvas of post World War II soviet union image of a “happy socialist future”


“Artists and the model” Silvia Jogever, 1963
2 exhibitions were shut down in the 1960
Silvia Jõgever’ underground show of the expressionist paintings in a Tartu art school she worked at had been taken down by the authorities in 1960.

in the next decade, she stayed low and in a safe distance from the cultural life.



 Estonia
Ukraine


Opanas Zalyvakha’ first solo exhibition in 1962 lasted two weeks, before being closed by the party authorities because "the works presented did not contain bright optimistic heroes of building a brighter future."

in 3 years he is sent to the labor camp in Mordovia and forbidden to draw.



What defines us more? 



the country we grow up in?
family dinners, stories from neighbors' lives?

our friends, opponents, companions,

life events?







or childhood memory of getting this one sweet treat, wrapped in colorful paper, and bringing it home?







or the carpet on the wall in grandmother's room, with the curves of that leafy pattern, perfect for traversing with the finger, before drifting into sleep?
"Sopilkar", Alla Gorska, 1960s
“Hory zustrichaut”, Opanas Zalyvakha, 1960s

this tool will let you express your own thoughts and feelings on this topic.

The starting image give you a direction, but by the end you are left with your own creation.

You will draw with the pieces of the past,

meditate on the layering, colors, and negative spaces.


1950s
60s
70s

80s
90s
00s

And then explore the collections, that deliver traces of memory through the decades of silence.

10s
20s

Here is how to ensure the flow







“Liblikas”, Silvia Jogever, 1967












choose the base painting
(country dropdown)














“Zhinka yde vgoru”, Opanas Zalyvakha


objects of labour and leisure, that defined life at that time





and the mode of investigation
(objects or paintings)


pieces of paintings of the artists, who breathed and created at a time when art’s sole purpose was to glorify the Soviet regime  
change brush type with numbers on your keyboard (0-9)
or with
RANDOM BRUSH
button

you have 10 brushes in every set
change brush size

 with a slider


see results  to learn more about the brushes you used and to reach the archive they come from

save your creation before moving to another category
 




objects used
archives reached
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