Arcadia. Kopīgie dārzi /Gardens in common by Anastasia Tsayder
Limited edition of 150 copies
Hardcover
212x295 mm
196 pages, 91 image
Latvian / English
ISBN 978-9934-591-15-0
Many people would tell you, looking at these photographs by Anastasia Tsayder, that what they're looking at are quintessentially post-Soviet, Eastern European images. They might enjoy them as documents of a unique and unusual civilization that has fallen into desuetude; conversely, or at the same time they might see them as evidence of the awful state of Homo Sovieticus, a species apparently incapable of caring for its own environment, and left bewildered by the refusal of the state to continue providing this care. Looking out of my window in a small block of council flats in a pleasant part of London, I find both reactions a little puzzling. The environment documented here – a landscape of optimistic but standardized post-war housing, whose green spaces have been overtaken by nature, is almost exactly what I can see when I look from the walkways of my block. — Owen Hatherley, from the book’s afterword by
Photography: Anastasia Tsayder
Sequence: Anna Volkova
Afterword: Owen Hatherley
Book design: Alexey Murashko
Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia
Arcadia. Kopīgie dārzi /Gardens in common by Anastasia Tsayder
Limited edition of 150 copies
Hardcover
212x295 mm
196 pages, 91 image
Latvian / English
ISBN 978-9934-591-15-0
Many people would tell you, looking at these photographs by Anastasia Tsayder, that what they're looking at are quintessentially post-Soviet, Eastern European images. They might enjoy them as documents of a unique and unusual civilization that has fallen into desuetude; conversely, or at the same time they might see them as evidence of the awful state of Homo Sovieticus, a species apparently incapable of caring for its own environment, and left bewildered by the refusal of the state to continue providing this care. Looking out of my window in a small block of council flats in a pleasant part of London, I find both reactions a little puzzling. The environment documented here – a landscape of optimistic but standardized post-war housing, whose green spaces have been overtaken by nature, is almost exactly what I can see when I look from the walkways of my block. — Owen Hatherley, from the book’s afterword by
Photography: Anastasia Tsayder
Sequence: Anna Volkova
Afterword: Owen Hatherley
Book design: Alexey Murashko
Supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia
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