Artwork Description
Nadya Tolokonnikova – MY MOTHERLAND LOVES ME AND I LOVE MY MOTHERLAND
Dimensions: 78.74 x 39.37″
Year: 2024
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
N.T.: Triptych “MY MOTHERLAND LOVES ME AND I LOVE MY MOTHERLAND” plays off Joseph Beuys’ “I Like America and America Likes Me”, Oleg Kulik’s “I Bite America and America Bites Me”, as well as Pussy Riot’s 2014 action at Sochi Olympics “Putin Will Teach You How To Love the Motherland”. The title of the piece is meant to be an ironic nod to the fact that I’m labeled an extremist, terrorist and a foreign agent in my country of birth for my art-activism work and ongoing military and humanitarian support of Ukraine.