The Moscow Metro is a real underground museum and an endless source of inspiration for creative people. Modern artist Alexandra Slon made a whole photo project dedicated to the lighting in the subway and how it affects the perception of architecture. In her photos, light elements are folded into bizarre, geometric compositions.
Alexandra also divides her works into several sections – which can be used to trace the chronology of the construction of stations and how the lighting solutions changed in them.
Krasnye Vorota station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Kropotkinskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Sokolniki station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Sokolniki station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Avtozavodskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Novokuznetskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Paveletskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Arbatskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Kievskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Komsomolskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Taganskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Krasnopresnenskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Oktyabrskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Babushkinskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Pushkinskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Chertanovskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Prazhskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Tretyakovskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Maryina Roshcha station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Chkalovskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Vorontsovskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Michurinsky Prospekt station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Rizhskaya station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning
Terekhovo station
Alexandra Slon/Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban PlanningThe open air ‘Architecture of Light’ photo exhibition by the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the City of Moscow can be viewed along Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow until December 10, 2023 and is free of charge.
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