"Sinful" Love

In a world that labels their love as sinful, simply choosing each other becomes an act of resistance.

In many post-Soviet societies, love that exists outside heteronormative expectations is still labeled as immoral, inappropriate, or “sinful.” The word itself carries religious, political, and generational weight.

This project questions: Who defines what is sinful?, Why is intimacy political?, What does it mean to love openly where silence is safer?.

The black-and-white aesthetic removes distraction and nostalgia. It echoes archival memory as if these moments are already historical, already erased, already fighting to exist.

Architecture plays a central role: heavy doors, institutional buildings, enclosed corners. These spaces represent inherited systems rigid, authoritative, slow to change. Against them, the softness of touch becomes resistance.