Photography, 127 x 183 x 8.5 cm.
image: © Almagul Menlibayeva
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. S0441_01).
Steppen Police is a still from her film Milk for Lambs. This film depicts the lives of women in the steppes of Kazakhstan, with a stream of references to nomadic mythology, shamanism and the Soviet heritage. It's a romantic, melancholic and at the same time surreal reflection on the brusque cultural development of her homeland.
"These are the kind of images you can very often see in Kazakhstan. Just policemen who are protecting something, because there are some private places in the steppe where you can stay, with nothing around. It might look very surreal. But when you ask him, of course, he has a story and everything becomes very logical." - Almagul Menlibayeva
>Almagul Menlibayeva, Steppen Police, 2010
> Almagul Menlibayeva.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. M HKA, Antwerp, 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Exhibition: Visite Roeselare – The Green Line. , 05 May 2016 - 19 June 2016.
> Exhibition: LATT: Europe at Large #6 Rustam Khalfin & Almagul Menlibayeva. M HKA, Antwerpen, 16 July 2010 - 29 August 2010.
> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.
> Ensemble: The Collection.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Audiodescriptie - De Collectie.
> Ensemble: CENTRAL ASIA.
>Almagul Menlibayeva, Tengri Boy, 2010.Photography, cibachrome, 96.5 x 127 x 5.5 cm.
>Almagul Menlibayeva, Forever Umai, 2010.Photography, cibachrome, 96.5 x 127 x 5.5 cm.
>Almagul Menlibayeva, The Observer, 2010.Photography, cibachrome, 96.5 x 127 x 5.5 cm.