part to modernize. he feels as if he s giving the walls a new identity and a new face and helping the city move further away from russia and their shared soviet past. like how soviet it has because like there s a potential for it to grow in like a modern way that is unlike any other city and watching like that kind of fade away and people kind of. embrace new modern things like i in a way likes having street art is like a really kind of a modern day modern phenomenon that. the murals are street art for the masses not gallery pieces for the elite of this exhibit is out in the open for all to see that s just what the artists collective wanted something fully in the spirit of the two thousand and fourteen my don revolution. ukrainian photographer nikifor off takes a different perspective one of looking back. he s out to document kiev soviet legacy
architecture which dominates much of the city much of the new work captures the open minded spirit since the two thousand and fourteen my don revolution broke with ukraine s moscow dominated past. emmanuel giarrusso is a street artist from canada with ukrainian roots he s come to kiev to add a little color and variety to the city s grey residential blocks. all around ukraine s capital the communist era prefab facades are getting a new paint job it s a very political process. and victor and his crane are always on hand to host the artist up so he can work at those dizzying heights. it hasn t been anything but a wall for a hundred years and because of open mindedness and you know now it s seven hundred years later there s going to be a mirror on it and it s to do with that. open minded perspective and open the box and open the window on the wall so that s the idea. he s proud to be able to do his