Man facing death

Series. Sizes vary.
2022
Materials: filled fabric bones and animal remains
Category: objects
Item Number: 018755
38 000 / 330 €
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About the Work
About the Artist

Series “Man in the Face of Death.”

How has society's attitude towards death changed since primitive times? How does her perception change from birth to adulthood? Why is death forced out of life if it is the only thing we know for sure about the future? By combining the frightening and the aesthetic, the author asks the question why death inspires fear and at the same time attracts. Each object in the series is created like a soft toy, with the help of which the world is learned from childhood. If death is veiled in this way, does it become less repulsive?

Object sizes: 1. 25×23×34 cm 2. 9×33×24 cm 3. 22×24×21 cm 4. 36×16×38 cm

Margarita Zhuravleva was born in 1989. Lives and works in Moscow.

Turning to inconspicuous everyday and everyday events, Margarita Zhuravleva explores such basic topics as death, knowledge and memory. She highlights local and imperceptible, hidden and sometimes repulsive aspects of the objective world through simplifications, allusions, imitations and similarities. Variability plays a key role in the artist’s practice, combining sculpture, video, photography, painting and installation.