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Building in the background: Palace of the Republic, Almaty (pre-renovation state)

This image was created as an open narrative.

A broken piano. A silent man. A building in the background.
Who is he? What just happened? Is this mourning – or quiet celebration?
I want the viewer to ask these questions.

At the same time, this work is deeply personal.
The piano represents my emotional response to what happened to the building behind it:
The Palace of the Republic in Almaty.

In my work, I decided to show the building in its original state.
Once monumental, strange, and full of rhythm, it had a soul.
After the so-called “restoration,” it was stripped of its identity and replaced by a generic glass facade.
It lost its tectonics, its poetry – its meaning.

To me, this is not preservation.
This is a crime.
A crime against culture, against memory, against architecture itself.

This scene is my attempt to capture that loss.
A metaphorical crime scene, where something beautiful was destroyed and cynically labeled progress.