Musée Immédiat
Photographing the countries of Eastern Europe
in a period of cultural and geopolitical transition
«With the Russian-backed war in eastern Ukraine, the country’s government has responded with laws designed to rid Ukraine’s public spaces of communist relics. Their destruction proclaims a deep desire to change the cultural narrative.» Donald Weber
Musée Immédiat (2017) is a book about the immediate museification of critical, transitional and cultural situations in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus. It tells of the upheavals of borders, the emergence of museums and monuments, the war, …
An inspiring introduction about historiography in Ukraine, written by the writer Mai Ann Bénédic, opens this book’s rich selection of testimonies and photographs. Divided in three chapters, it assists the reader in thinking about the role of writing in wartime through amazing photographs.
TEXTS
Mai Ann Bénédic
Sandra Alek
PHOTOGRAPHS
Joao Bolan
Kate Motyleva
Vladimir Rakitsky
Mathilde Vaveau
Donald Weber
October 2017
16,5x23,5cm
132 pages
300 copies
Trilingual : FR/EN/RU
30€
