Vagina is My Motherland

Bratkov’s video installation Vagina is My Motherland, filmed in the industrial city of Dnipro, represented Ukrainian contemporary art at the Venice Biennale in 2007. (Four years earlier, the artist had participated in the Russian Pavilion.) Metallurgy, a major Ukrainian export, was filmed as a kind of sexual act. The installation also included portraits of workers in light boxes.

Installation view: Ukrainian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007

2007. Mixed-media installation