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Official memorialization requires time, permits, approvals, and architectural competitions. But grassroots memorialization responds here and now. Maryna Bakiieva’s project is devoted to recording, researching, and understanding these manifestations of spontaneous memory and Ukrainians’ collective traumatic experience. It concerns the forms of memory created not by architects but by ordinary people.
These include Ukrainian flags installed on burned armored personnel carriers along frontline roads, flags erected on the main squares of cities, as well as soft toys and flowers left at the sites of Russian attacks.
The result will be a book covering the following aspects: the democratization of memory processes and the solidarity that society expresses in the face of the state’s slowness to react. A separate section will also be devoted to banner memorials installed by city authorities.
The artist Valeo Kopysov will work on the visual part, which includes collages and illustrations.