OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?

The Troyeshchyna district of Kyiv, Ukraine, is the place where we were born and spent our childhood. Separated by a river, it is the largest dormitory suburb in Europe - a ghetto for working class people, who lost their jobs and their confidence in the future. My older brother personified the first generation of young people in the independent Ukraine of the 1990s. He entered the world of criminality, heroin chic, MTV, sex and the first wave of techno. 

Live fast, die young. 

I saw his life and his ‘lost generation’. I heard a lot from my brother, I saw a lot with my own eyes. Due to the big difference in age, I did not always understand.

My brother died in 2018. 

This project explores how time and place affect a person's destiny. I use my own memories about my brother, the memories of people who were his friends and grew up with him, and reflect them to the same places today. I recreate fragments of his own biography and explore how young people have changed in the last 15 years.