FORCED OMISSION ARCHIVE

FORCED OMISSION ARCHIVE

FORCED OMISSION ARCHIVE

FORCED OMISSION ARCHIVE

An Archive of Suppressed Intellectual Histories

An Archive of Suppressed Intellectual Histories

An Archive of Suppressed Intellectual Histories

Forced Omission is an approximately 100-page hand-made artist book centered on an ongoing project that explores silenced histories, generational trauma, and cultural erasure. Combining visual art, archival research, and historical documentation, it examines the repression of intellectuals under the Soviet regime and its echoes in present-day authoritarianism. Informed by the artist's family history, including the execution and deportation of relatives during Stalin's terror, and her estrangement from Russia after publicly opposing the war in Ukraine, the project and the publication serves as an act of remembrance and resistance.It opens with an essay by Daria Irincheeva examining the relationship between contemporary Russian authoritarianism and the unresolved legacy of Soviet state terror. The publication includes previously unpublished family archives, declassified Soviet security documents, and the complete Forced Omission series to date, featuring all 225 oil paintings. Each painting is accompanied by biographical information about the writer, scientist, philosopher, or artist whose publication it references. Many of these historical texts and biographies appear in English translation for the first time.