Ilya Kabakov, The palace of projects, 1998. “the installation displays and examines a seemingl
Ilya Kabakov, The palace of projects, 1998. “the installation displays and examines a seemingly commonly known and even trivial truth: the world consists of a multitude of projects, realized ones, half-realized ones, and ones not realized at all.” Thus, despite the immediate reference to the Soviet Union’s utopian project, the viewer is told that this installation refers to the entire world. The text continues and promises the viewer that within the palace are over 60 projects, some complete, many not, but one that, perhaps, is the viewer’s own and which will give meaning and significance to his life. The text insists that a life is worth living only if it has a project of some sort. -- source link
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