The Aftersounds of the Past, 2025

The Aftersounds of the Past / The series of artist’s books, № 6

Materials: 8 flexi discs, cardboard envelope, white ribbon

March, 2025

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This book consists of old flexi discs from the USSR. In Soviet times, you could order a record with a postcard that the recording studio would send to the recipient as a gift. The pages of this book are just such records. Only one record saved an own postcard.

The cover of the book is an envelope from the recording studio of the city of Evpatoria. The attachment from the envelope is an instruction on how to place an order. On the sample-postcard is written: “To Tanyusha on her birthday from Lyuba, Irkutsk, 1971”. And the title of the record: Bitterness (Gorech), Edita Piekha.

The book tells about the present that has become the past.