In 2024, I made the film MONUMENTOMANIA about how military monuments make war possible by glorifying militarism and manipulating collective memory. PLASTIC MEMORIES / IGRUSHKI is a series of sculptures that continues my visual exploration of monumentalism.

In February 2025, I released the first drop of works from this series — 10 objects. Now, “IGRUSHKI” is getting a sequel — a new series of 16 works. Continuing to dance around the visuality of monumentalism and militarism, the works in the new series are more serious and aggressive — in narrative and material terms.

PLASTIC MEMORIES / IGRUSHKI is both a critique of monumentalism and militarism, a version of what monuments should be, and a reminder that, actually, cities do just fine without them. Monumentalism discredited itself in the last century, and art—both static and relational—functions perfectly well as points of urban attraction. The monuments have fallen; this series invites us to imagine—what comes next?