Mika Plutitskaya is a visual artist based in Moscow. Having started her career in arts as a performer, she currently works primarily with painting exploring its connections with concepts of historicisation and mythologisation, as well as incorporating cinematic tropes such as montage into her practice. She is especially interested in deconstructing the childhood and adolescence myths and gender representaions of the Soviet era.
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Guests III, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Guests series. This project reinterprets images from a Soviet children's film Oh, That Nastya! (1972), where the protagonist travels to a "wonderful deer-land"
Guests IV, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Guests series. The Guests part of the project focuses on the plurality of child subjectivity
Guests VII, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Guests series
Guests IX, 2020. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Guests series
Animals II, 2019
Library II, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Forest Deer series. The Forest Deer part introduces and combines the landscapes from The Adventures of Mowgli (1967-1971) and the ruins of the INION RAN building
Guest I, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Forest Deer series. Plutitskaya creates a post-apocalyptic landscape where the ruins of a Soviet building appear to be in a fairy-tale jungle space
Guest II, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Forest Deer series
Guest X, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Forest Deer series
Guest XI, 2020. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Forest Deer series
Borderline I, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Borderlines series. The Borderlines part focuses on the INION building––the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences that burned down in 2015
Borderline II, 2019. From the Like a Merry-Go-Round in Childhood: Borderlines series
