The Chips: Ukrainian Naїve Mosaics of the
1950–90s (2024)
Photobook
Authors: Yevgen Nikiforov & Polina Baitsym
165 x 220 mm, hardcover with dust jacket
190 pages
Language(s): Ukrainian / English
Publisher: ist publishing
The archive, collected between 2013 and 2023 and conceived as a book in 2019, presents mosaics by unknown authors in a state of half-decay—when they have already lost their initial glow, are decaying, or are disappearing into the lower layers of facades and city panoramas. The book focuses on naïve mosaics as a phenomenon that raises questions about memory and space, past and present, self-expression and imitation, and captures the fragility of the monumental, which, like chips, eventually became crumbs at the bottom of the package.