Sergey Bratkov is a visual artist who works with politically charged contexts using various media such as painting, photography, installation, video and performance. He became interested in photography in the 1970s and began experimenting in the 1980s, making collages and objects. From 1988 to 1993 he was part of a group of artists called “Litera A” and created semi-figurative paintings. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the “Fast Reaction Group” together with the photographers Boris Mikhailov, Vita Mikhailova and Sergey Solonsky. Together, they created numerous provocative campaigns, objects and photo series.

"Bureaucracies/dictatorships, borders/orders, left/right, fed up with it." (Sergey Bratkov)

In this negating gesture, Bratkov concentrates a human experience of modern policies of control.

Through his personal story of emigration the artist materialize the multiple fences of bureaucracies and borders to basic rights and practices. Highlighting the issue Ordnung in the time of war, the work also speaks on the tightening of civil liberties and austerity measures due to militarization of Europe.