Yaniya Mikhalina, Sisterless, 58 min 2022, film. Trailer.
The exhibition Sisterless presents five works by the Tatar artist Yaniya Mikhalina. Sisterless is also the title of one of the works in the exhibition.The film attempts to present a psychic reality of Albina, a young Tatar woman in Russia who dreamed to become a psychoanalyst. Instead, she went through several episodes of psychosis and psychiatric hospitalizations herself, following the psychosis of her sister Almira. Both sisters committed suicide within 1,5 years. Sisterless is an unsentimental attempt to analyze the work of grief, a feminist commentary on the connection between sickness, the contemporary political condition, and the consequences of the Post-Soviet displacement. The narration is based on conversations accumulated over 1.5 years and provides a sex- and class-conscious take on the psychiatric system in Russia, inter-generational traumas, embodied capitalism, and female ethics. In the film, the genre of documentary is introduced as a way to flatten the hierarchy between the reality of delirium and the reality of facts; as a standpoint that simply allows relationships to take place and antagonisms to be revealed.
The film had its premiere at documenta15, Lumbung cinema program.
More info to come - stay tuned!
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The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Kosmorama 2023, and the 14th International Conference on Artistic Research, co-organised by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), taking place from April 19 to 21, 2023, in Trondheim, Norway.
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Yaniya Mikhalina. In the Volga-Ural Sky (After Eisentsten. The capture of Kazan), collage 2023 - 2/16
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Yaniya Mikhalina, Sisterless, film, 58 min. (Filmstill).
