HOURS: FRI-SUN 12:00-4:30 or By Appointment

Past exhibits

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.