Juxtaposing pictures of the city, the candy wrapping and the prayerbooks connects otherwise heterogeneous elements. In my work, I explore the relationship between the pictures and between the political and the personal. In doing so, my interest is not solely focused on my parents’ past but on the current ways power operates in Russia. With the trauma of Soviet history remaining unprocessed, the authoritarian methods of control of the past resurface more and more often, even in new forms. In Hyperboles, Parables, Ellipses, photographs of prefab soviet concrete buildings find affinity with modern skyscrapers, even if these new monoliths of power have not yet been marked by the activities that play out around them. However, no strategy will remain free from tactic.