Since 2014, for her series Second Hand, Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova has been exploring “the history of buildings that have changed ownership and function” by making visual analogies with recycled clothing, in a former silk factory in Kyiv, for example, or an abandoned bus station near Chernobyl.

The results, including those exhibited at the Venice Biennale this year, encourage viewers to see old buildings and castoffs in a striking new light