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Mikhail Karasik

Паспорт

Passport

St. Petersburg 2001

460 x 370 mm

The passport is the artist’s second self-portrait,

published 5 years after Self-portrait. “A passport is

probably the most formal and featureless biography of

holder.” Karasik has made a pastiche, blowing up the

size of the internal Russian passport while retaining

its actual design. With personal additions, text and

more personal. There are 24 pages on which the text is

presented both in Russian and in English. All 30 copies

of the book are presented in a red paper envelope with

collage and stamp.