Pavel Romaniko: A Guide to Collective Melancholy

(detail) Pavel Romaniko, “Untitled (Accident)”, 2016, digital chromogenic print, 16”x20”, courtesy of the

A Guide to Collective Melancholy is a photographic series created by the artist as he moved between Russia and the United States over a nine year period.  Through this work, Romaniko explores ideas about changing social and political relationships.  He references narratives about post-Soviet Russia has resisted or embraced change, and the trauma associated with the events that have unfolded in the last few decades. A series of photographs, reflections and meditations on history and the present by Russian/American artist Pavel Romaniko