Pilots and stewardesses, 2003
Photography, 7 x (40 x 30 cm).
©Sergey Bratkov
Collection: M HKA, Antwerp / Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007497).
The narrative tradition of a specifically Russian heroism is the central pictorial or scenographic motif in the series Pilots and Stewardesses. The series consists of seven pictures of children, with the boys dressed up as pilots and the girls dressed up as stewardesses, giving them the appearance of adults, depicted as heroes. The series comments on the influence of the mass media on the perception of the individual through advertisement, kitsch, beauty pageants and Hollywood movies. Children tend to mimic the constructed, 'perfect' world that is suggested by advertising. Bratkov shows the irony and absurdity of this act of mimicry.
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> Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness. European Parliament, Brussels, 05 May 2022 - 21 August 2022.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: Let's Play Museum. M HKA, Antwerp, 10 June 2023 - 17 September 2023.
> Exhibition: Visite Herentals - Reflections. Kasteel Le Paige, Herentals, 13 October 2012 - 04 November 2012.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Diest. M HKA & Stad Diest, Diest, 27 November 2014 - 21 December 2014.
> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
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> Ensemble: Life is Pain.
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> Ensemble: In Solidarity with Ukraine.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.