Soviet–Ukraine tempered glass ashtrays,  

c print,

epoxy 

2021–

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Taking pilot-wave theory from quantum mechanics as a conceptual starting point, the work explores alternative architectural histories of Kyiv, Ukraine. Using unrealised archival architectural drawings and Soviet ashtrays as both lens and speculative object, the work captures a glimpse of a time that never materialised. Titled Droplet Falling in the Ghost City That I Don’t Remember, it asks: if the infrastructures shaping our surroundings had been different, how would this have altered identity, memory, and our relationship to urban space?

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When one possibility becomes reality, countless others collapse. Here, the droplet functions as a wave of unrealised potential—an expression of counter-history in which the city exists simultaneously in memory and imagination. The work draws on quantum theory as a metaphorical framework, using it to reflect on how perception, speculation, and historical conditions shape what is remembered, built, or forgotten, blurring the line between observer and observed.