Homeland
2010
pencil on paper

In Michail Michailov’s latest work “homeland” the artist presents himself and his environment (carto)graphically in his homelands. As a central issue he questions the meaning of terms such as homeland, migration and integration as well as the interconnected significance of identifications, fears and anxieties. Behavioral patterns such as belonging/ foreignness / exclusion/, camouflage/ adaptation and perpetrator-/ victimhood are made visible by the figurative meaning of animals. Animal individuals are being assembled densely into a collage. They are not standing each for its own; they form a compactly interlaced bulk. Parallel worlds graphically melt into a single entity. The performance “You want me, but …” broaches on the issue of society’s expectation and likewise societal dependence on immigrants.

Homeland I, Homeland II (120x150),

   
 Homeland III (207x145)

 

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