Oleg Savunov,
Oleg Savunov, "17 June 2021 / 24 February 2022," installation view.


1275 Minnesota St / The Jones Institute

MSP welcomes The Jones Instutute for a guest exhibition from their inaugural Emerging Artist Series, on view in Room 211.

Oleg Savunov, a native of Russia and recent graduate of Stanford’s MFA program, presents a series of photographs and collages that explore the artist’s complex relationship with his motherland. In this exhibition, Oleg — currently a Graduate Fellow at Headlands for the Arts — reconceived the propaganda magazine USSR in Construction, published in the 1930s using photographs that he himself took in 2021 during his last visit to his homeland. Savunov’s collages juxtapose these images with current news excerpts and quotes from art historian Andreas Huyssen’s Nostalgia for Ruins, creating a layered and nuanced portrait of contemporary Russia.

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