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Rethinking the past of every community, retrieving, reusing, redistributing, are the bywords of Zhanna Kadyrova’s research. Made inBrazil Series #6 is part of a broader project, entitled Second Hand (2014-ongoing), of which an edition was exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

This project began just before the Ukraine introduced so-called ‘de-communication,’ a process that aims to cancel every trace of the country’s Soviet past. In the late 1950s, enamel tiles, enamel being a material used in the mosaics of the Byzantine basilicas and after that in orthodox churches, were introduced in Soviet territories where they clad the facades in gray concrete, a symbol of modernity. By metaphorically associating the act of reimagining a building with that of reusing garments, Zhanna Kadyrova uses the tiles of destroyed buildings, matching them with heavy construction materials like concrete and cement, to make sculpture-garments, convinced of the need to remember and reimagine the architectural traditions of every community. In particular, Made in Brazil Series #6 was created in São Paulo in 2014 with second-hand tiles used in Brazil to clad the walls of shops, cafés, and local buildings.

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