‘It’s a reference to the fact that I was adopted. You don’t know if the mother’s arm is coming in – or moving away’Five years ago, I was invited to Donetsk in Ukraine for a month-long residency, overseen by my all-time hero Boris Mikhailov. Mother and child is a classic artistic subject, and I wanted to do my own interpretation of it. In Donetsk, there were a lot of young families who’d married in their early 20s. The husband would go out to work and the wife would look after the children. I was given an assistant, Ulya, who introduced …read more
Source: The Guardian
