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Visual architectural essay · 2022
The visual essay traces and documents political shifts in power and ideology through a spatial actor - Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine - a public space where local politics materialise spatially.
2014 protests
Crowds gathered around the Lenin monument, turning the square into a site of collective action and political expression.
Removal of the Lenin monument
The dismantling of the monument following the political shift of 2014, marking a break with the Soviet past.
City Administration building
The bombed administrative building, documenting the recent destruction of the square and the vulnerability of civic architecture during conflict.
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