Marija Nemčenko

In a dark room, with windows with light behind and a radiator below, we see three rectangular painitngs that make up one in different altitudes. There is a grey building with a lot of windows and a green pointy shape to the left and a red circle to the right.

From a further away perspective and seeing it from the side we see a dark room, with windows with light behind and a radiator below, we see three rectangular painitngs that make up one in different altitudes. There is a grey building with a lot of windows and a green pointy shape to the left and a red circle to the right.

Next to a black small street light and in front of some stairs going up we see a painting sustained by two sticks. The painting is abstract but shows a champagne bottle opened and grey, red and white geometrical shapes. The floor is mosaic and the wall behind is brown.

A close-up of an abstract painting that shows a champagne bottle opened and grey, red and white geometrical shapes. It is centred in the cork and the black metal handrail behind it.

Fairfield Govan Heritage Centre and Workspace

In an intuitive study of socialist structures that expands from Eastern Europe’s brutalist landscapes to Glasgow’s tower blocks, BRUT found shared experiences to reveal the cultural legacy of these constructions. Influenced by personal experience of migration from a young post-Soviet nation, Nemcenko addressed the questions of unfulfilled promises and elaborates upon how these concrete colonies came to define a certain social and cultural identity from multiple perspectives at once.