Troyeshchyna, a district of Kyiv, was where we were born and spent our childhood. Separated by a river, it’s amongst the largest residential districts in Europe; a ghetto for the working classes who lost their jobs and their confidence in the future. My older brother is the personification of a new generation of young people in independent Ukraine. In the 1990s, he entered a world of criminality, heroin chic, MTV, sex, and the first wave of techno.
Live fast, die young.
I saw his life among a generation that is referred to as ‘lost’. I heard a lot from my brother. I saw a lot with my own eyes. Due to our difference in age, I didn’t always understand.
My brother died in 2018.
My project explores how time and place affect a person's destiny. I use my own memories of my brother – the memories of his friends and those who grew up with him – to reflect on the same places today. I recreate fragments of his own biography, as a means to explore how the young generation has changed in the last 15 years.
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