Paperback, 116 pages, 7” x 8.5”, ISBN 978-0-9827234-2-5

(Collection Brooklyn Museum)

Published as a book (Proteotypes 2011), the Museum of Matches acts as a “pocket museum” of images and narrative text from Sasha Chavchavadze’s Museum of Matches project, which explored the Cold War and its legacy. Both a family memoir and an interdisciplinary art project, the book draws parallels between past and present and different parts of the world, incorporating visual art, photographs, documents and artifacts. A visual record of the entire eight-year Museum of Matches project, the book opens windows into several moments in history, including the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, with a focus on Chavchavadze’s understanding of her father's career as a Cold War CIA operative. Museum of Matches is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.