Special Exhibition Gallery
Who
Ilkay Unay Gailhard
Where
First Floor
When
August 30 - October 27
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 12:00 to 4:30
"Soviet Fingerprints, The Second Life of Socialist Cars" by Ilkay Unay Gailhard
An automobile symbolizes many personal desires:
freedom, adventure, status, mobility…
In the context of the Soviet Union, in contrast to the collective ideology, the desire for a private mobile space gave Soviet Cars a life of their own:
Volgas, Ladas, Moskviches, Zhigulis…
Nowadays, these old, tired cars living their second life under Capitalist systems in many post-Soviet states:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan…
SOVIET’S FINGERPRINTS project paints the portrait of Soviet automobiles in their second life, with themes of humor & life, and overloaded dreams of profit.