Chapiteau Moscow

Bratkov’s project Chapiteau Moscow marked a high point in his decade-long exploration of public forms of social life in the burgeoning Russian capital. The artist not only revisited many of his familiar social motifs, protagonists, and contexts, but also collided them through exquisite montage, seemingly in an effort to visually and semantically amplify the absurdity of social time and space. The prosperity of the late 2000s did not bring political stability or refinement but instead intensified the entropy of the following decade.

2012. Series of 30 photo-collages. 200 × 300 cm