World Trade Centre Riga, Latvia
This image is a personal reinterpretation of Riga’s World Trade Centre, a building with a history deeply connected to Latvia’s Soviet past. Completed in 1974, it was originally built as the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, placing a structure of enormous scale and authority directly in the centre of the city.
In the collage, I mirror the building against itself, creating two almost identical structures facing one another across a deep black square. For me, these two sides represent two versions of the same reality: the order, stability and permanence that the system presented on the outside, and everything that existed beneath it but remained hidden, suppressed or unresolved. The black space between them becomes a kind of void separating these two worlds.
The monumental structure can be read as a metaphor for a system built on order, permanence and control, while the empty space suggests everything that remained unseen beneath its surface. Rather than simply documenting a piece of Soviet architecture, I wanted to reconstruct it as a visual reflection on power, memory and what remains after an ideology disappears.
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