Destroying factories, orange migrants
Print
2012 (made)
2012 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This print is one of a suite from The Wings of Migrants, a multi-disciplinary collaboration incorporating dance, video, installation, drawings and prints. The project addresses the plight of a marginalised group in contemporary Russia, migrant workers form former Soviet Central Asia. In this scene construction workers in orange high visibility jackets demolish the factories of the old Soviet military-industrial complex.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Destroying factories, orange migrants (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Monoprint |
| Brief description | ‘Gluklya’ (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya) Destroying factories, orange migrants 2012 Monoprint |
| Physical description | Rectangular image (lanscape format) printed in black, blue, green and orange: figures dressed in orange strike dance-like poses beside a factory building with a hammer and sickle at the top of its tower, to the left the image is superimposed by arabic script printed in green, to the right an amorphous cloud of black dust or smoke with faces peering out of it and superimposed by the silhouette of a dome like that of a mosque printed in blue. |
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| Content description | Figures dressed in orange jackets or tabards in dance-like poses beside a factory building with a hammer and sickle at the top of its tower, to the left the image is superimposed by arabic script printed in green, to the right an amorphous cloud of black dust or smoke with faces peering out of it and the silhouette of a dome like that of a mosque printed in blue. |
| Production type | Unique |
| Gallery label | These prints are from The Wings of Migrants, a collaborative project incorporating dance, video, installation, drawings and prints. The project addresses the plight of Russia’s marginalised and exploited migrant workers from former Soviet Central Asia. In the scene on the left, construction workers in orange high visibility jackets demolish the factories of the old Soviet military-industrial complex. On the right they raise a heroic monument to the migrant worker.(22/10/2016) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This print is one of a suite from The Wings of Migrants, a multi-disciplinary collaboration incorporating dance, video, installation, drawings and prints. The project addresses the plight of a marginalised group in contemporary Russia, migrant workers form former Soviet Central Asia. In this scene construction workers in orange high visibility jackets demolish the factories of the old Soviet military-industrial complex. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.451-2015 |
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| Record created | April 3, 2014 |
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