Aikaterini Gegisian
Dec 08, 2020
3 minutes
Lauren Elkin
igh above a parking lot spins a fragment of a Ferris wheel. Across the blue waves of a postcard-perfect sea, an elaborate railing forms a row of overhead portholes. In the Greek Armenian artist Aikaterini Gegisian’s collages, contemporary artifacts from the Russian city of Vladikavkaz are layered over photographs from Soviet-era archives in order, she says, to “visually articulate the idea of post-Soviet transition.” To conduct research for (2013), she went to the national library of North Ossetia–Alania, in southwestern Russia, unearthing images that would allow her to point implicitly
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