Remember!

In the project “Remember!” I explore how memory of the past shapes our perception of the present. In the photographs, monuments of military hardware—tanks, rockets and aircraft—are integrated into the urban environment, mounted on pedestals amid residential buildings and streets. These mundane, almost imperceptible monuments become part of the everyday landscape, where war is not an event but a background constant. Through the contrast between the monumentality of these relics and the ordinariness of residential neighborhoods, I show how history intrudes into our daily lives, shaping our understanding of freedom and its boundaries.

The juxtaposition of the weight of armored vehicles and the familiar architecture of city blocks prompts me to consider how history permeates our present—not only through texts and narratives but also via material symbols. I am interested in the extent to which we, as a society, are free to choose what to remember, how to interpret the past, and what to exclude. This work examines how memory can be imposed and how symbols of the past, embedded in the visual fabric of the present, become instruments of ideological control. This project is an attempt to visualize the imperceptible yet influential presence of history in our everyday life and to ask: does society have the freedom to choose—to remember or to forget, to interpret or to reject?