Every Day I Talk to the Dead & Alive Artists cycle
2010–2013ID: C1
Every Day I Talk to the Dead & Alive Artists is an early conceptual cycle that established Sergey Shabohin’s artistic language based on appropriation, irony, and institutional critique. Emerging from self-education and archival research, the project reflects on authorship, imitation, and the commodification of art, transforming dialogue with art history into a living practice. Referencing his earlier work Reliquaries (2009), where fragments of lost artworks became symbolic relics, the cycle develops the idea of communication between living and dead artists – between presence and disappearance, originality and reproduction. It is both a study of how art systems shape meaning and a meditation on the continuity of artistic life within an ever-reproducing culture.
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