Issue 2026, 1: “This is how I dreamed of the fourth reactor” Maria Prymachenko and (not) naive images of Chornobyl
Art in the Soviet Union was the mirror of the official communist party policy. However, Maria Prymachenko was successfully hiding the critique of the system behind “naive” pictures. She was one of the few artists who truly depicted the consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe: from environmental issues to commemorating the dead, from illnesses to corruption surrounding liquidator certificates.
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