When I enter a post-Soviet hospital, I feel a special kind of fear: like in my childhood, in my grandma's country yard, peering into the dark bottom of deep well. As I had been told by my parents, a monster lived there
Is modernity a purgatory?
"Well" is an immersion into a sensational experience. Post-Soviet hospitals are places, lost in time, historical remains that still function: state hospitals, medical scientific and research institutes (NII) and medical complexes (Medgorodok). Modernist external form often results in odd and complicated internal structure - a building has several entrances that implicate in intricate labyrinth from stairs and dark corridors with standstills and dark corners. Such buildings remain many years without general renovation and cracks in walls and outdated furniture just emphasize the feeling of frozen time and horror that embraces inside. Humans are present through feelings and states, they lived through: pain, sorrow, despair, melancholia, state of consciousness, changed with usage of drugs, suffering, expectation, boredom, hope, salvation, fear of death... These feelings are captured in scratches on furniture, dirty laundry, fingerprints on instruments - in everything that carries experience of a patient of being there, touching them, being terrified or cured by them.
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