Locust Roundtables: Balalaika by Asif Farooq

Aug 25, 2015 7:00 pm

Balalaika goes around the technological advancements in aviation of the 20th century. In the process of meticulously reconstructing a MiG-21 Interceptor from every day materials, high-speed flight becomes subject, object, and concept.

The materials the artist uses and the message are quite often interchangeable. Currently employed making a full scale Soviet fighter, Asif chose paper to impart a sense of it’s fragility. Both in the sense that it is impermanant, and also, to represent it’s ephemeral nature in cold war era politics.

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