Yelena Yemchuk – УYY Conceptual Her expressive collages recall her

Her expressive collages recall her childhood neighbourhoods and the family business of muscle-car counter-culture in Queens

It has ancient traditions associated with it

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They challenge our everyday assumptions and show us that the boundaries we put between things are more permeable than we might like to think

Yelena Yemchuk – УYY Conceptual Her expressive collages recall herYY is an acronym for Yelena Yemchuk, meaning the Slavic word for Ukraine, followed by the name of the Kyiv born author of the present book. Given the misleading resemblance between and Y, the title may at first appear to be why why why. The publishing project brings together the author's photographs, paintings and personal archives to bring out the essential elements of her wide ranging and heterogeneous research. The storys time is disjointed in