With economic migration
– for work, marriage or education – being so common and sought after, the idea
of home and searching for your place in life is becoming ever more relevant and
debated around the globe. ZRH is an exhibition of Swiss-based
artists originally from Russia, Mikhail Bushkov and Olga Bushkova, and
their own separate projects bonded together: Zürich (2012-2020)
and A Google Wife (2011-2017). The exhibition juxtaposes images
of the artists’ two homes – Russia and Switzerland – and, as a result,
deconstructs the feelings of nostalgia and belonging, and analyses the authors’
complicated relationship with the very notion of home. Without claiming
to be an all-in-one kind of solution, the work is conceived as a personal
story in the hope of relating to a global audience.
