Roman Mikhaylov

In his work No Game — No Hero, Roman Mykhailov continues to develop the image introduced in his series of paintings Fear. The running man emerges as the central image of the series. In the new work, Mykhailov focuses on the image of his protagonist in the contemporary world, where trends got supplanted by hypes, and the protagonist, or the prophet, to be more precise, is given to doubt. The artist invites the viewers to explore the issue further by offering that they don the role of either the protagonist or the antagonist. The game’s script, however, has only two behavioral models: you either flee or chase.