Yelena & Viktor Vorobyev: The Artist is Asleep
Almaty: Aspan Gallery,
- Artist
- Yelena Vorobyeva, Viktor Vorobyev
- Author
- Viktor Misiano
- Editor
- Yelena Shumilova, Henryk Baran
- Translator
- Henryk Baran, Charles Rougle, Andrei Fomenko
- Book design
- Franco Chiarpei
- Abstract
- Mid-career retrospective of Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev, curated by Viktor Misiano, centered on the artists' eponymous 1996 installation — a bed with a sleeping mannequin accompanied by a Russian-language manifesto — using the figure of the perpetually sleeping artist as a metaphor for creative integrity and nonconformity. The catalog spans the duo's practice across installation, photography, and text-based work from the 1990s through the 2010s, exploring post-Soviet identity, consumer culture, and social transformation in Kazakhstan.
- Language
- en, ru
- Format
- Book
- Geography
- Kazakhstan
- Subject
- Art, Photography
- Exhibition
- Yelena & Viktor Vorobyev: The Artist is Asleep, A. Kasteev Museum of Arts, Almaty (2015-08-27/2015-09-20)
- Pages
- 212