Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man; Two Mountains – in pictures

The Happiest Man by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Ambika P3: ‘It’s as if someone has built a home right there to get the perfect view, to live as close as possible to the silver screen,’ writes Laura Cumming
Photograph: David Freeman/University of Westminster

‘Inside the little house it could be any time in the past 100 years’ Photograph: Agostino Osio/Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca

‘The films reveal another world,’ writes Laura Cumming, ‘a Russia of the beautiful past in which everyone is working, and singing, in harmony’
Photograph: David Freeman/University of Westminster

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov The Happiest Man, 2012 Installation view HangarBicocca Foto / Photo Agostino Osio Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca Photograph: Agostino Osio/Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca

‘A cartload of stunning girls, perched on top of the prodigious mound of watermelons they’ve just harvested, sing so melodiously they draw the men home from the fields’
Photograph: Michael Mazière/University of Westminster

‘Whoever lives in that curious little house can only see the view through the window, and the view is only ever what appears on the screen’ Photograph: Emilia Kabakov

The Happiest Man by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Ambika P3 Photograph by Michael Mazière - University of Westminster Photograph: Michael Mazière - University of Westminster

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Two Mountains #4 Photograph: courtesy the artist and Sprovieri, London

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Two Mountains #5 Photograph: courtesy the artist and Sprovieri, London