• Yevgeniy Fiks, Communist Guide to Sydney, 2008, 46 digital photographs. Installation view at the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Ben Symons.
  

Yevgeniy Fiks traces forgotten chapters of history and, in doing so, exposes the ways in which cultures are shaped and their enemies constructed. In a number of recent works, Fiks has investigated the history of the Communist Party in various places around the world where he is invited to exhibit. Recently, he ‘mapped’ the American Communist Party history in New York and created the Communist Guide to New York (2008), identifying sites of significance and documenting a lost political history. For the Sydney Biennale, with the help of local Sydney historian Robert Dick, Fiks has created the Communist Guide to Sydney (2008), a collection of over 40 photographs of buildings, public places and sites in Sydney that are connected to the history of the Australian Communist Party. The sites include buildings that housed the headquarters of the party at different times, residences of important Australian communists, and parks and squares where significant party-led meetings and demonstrations took place.

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