Project
Shrines to Nature, 2020 - ongoing, led by Yevgenia Davidoff
These Luminous Structures (Perceptual Architecture) reinterpret the language of concrete architecture through intimacy rather than monumentality. Having grown up among Soviet Brutalist structures, I became interested in how architecture shapes psychological experience and how materials carry ideological histories.
Using discarded plastic food packaging as molds, I cast cement forms that resemble architectural relics or future fossils. Botanical imagery emerges across their surfaces, suggesting a quiet archaeology of the Anthropocene—where consumer culture and nature have become inseparable.
Concrete, once associated with institutional power, is domesticated in these works. Glass, light, and plant forms soften its severity, transforming the material into small architectures of care—spaces where individuals reclaim the ability to shape their own intimate environments of meaning.
