Echoes of a future

“Echoes of a Future” is a photo series that allows me to explore the deep connection between the Soviet Union and Armenia today. I aim to capture the lingering echoes of Soviet ideals within contemporary Armenian life, while acknowledging that this reality is also a kind of fiction shaped by Soviet dreams.

As I walk through Armenia’s streets, I’m struck by how visions and plans from the Soviet past continue to resonate in the present. The imposing buildings, monuments marked by that era’s seal, and even elements of daily culture still carry traces of Soviet dreams and aspirations. Yet, this reality, though tangible, is infused with the imagined future the Soviets once held for Armenia.

Each photograph I take is an attempt to reveal how these echoes of a Soviet-imagined future appear today. I strive to show how the structures and ideas of the past, partially realized, have given life to a fiction where the dreams of a bright future are both present and altered. Capturing these images, I sense a kind of dialogue between past and present—a silent conversation between past projects and current realities, colored by the unfinished ideals of Soviet dreams.

This project is also a personal journey for me, a way to understand how those once-promising visions of the future have shaped and influenced Armenia’s path. Seeing these echoes of the future, I feel connected to a larger history, to shared dreams that continue to live in people’s daily lives and in the fabric of the city, while also remaining a fiction of an imagined future.