“Masters” is composed of hundreds of discarded – brooms made of bundled twigs that are specific to the continental region and especially prevalent in post-Soviet states. These unwanted and forgotten brooms are amassed and lashed together to form an otherworldly object. The accumulation is composed of items that exist as both debris (discarded objects) and the mechanism for cleaning debris. The brooms immediately connote street and household work, manual labour, and the process of returning chaos to order, or messiness to cleanliness. However, Hasanov’s accumulation exists in a world in which people have abandoned their brooms and consequently their work, in favour of lending their voice and opinions to ongoing global debates.

The accumulation of brooms visualizes and parodies forms of control and the pitfalls of political posturing. It was created as a means of realizing the unique and rapidly increasing nature of multiculturalism within the Caucasus region. Multiculturalism is often understood as a means of managing diversity and multiplicity within a given society.

It identifies masters and minions – essentially, determining who has the authority to conduct (control) the conduct (behaviour) of others.