THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (2006)
Traditionally Flight to Egypt has been theme of landscape what defines European identity through orientalism. In paintings man can see a typical Central-European upper class look a like sacred family adventuring in oriental landscape.
In this piece I am exploring the identity of monogamous European family today. I try to break the presumed looks and identity of sacred people, sacred family. I have chosen uncommon perspective to represent subject of biblical art work. I try to remind the spectator of reasons of streams of refugees during the last hundred years. 2000 years old subject is still current.
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