David Kareyan - Sweet Repression of Ideology

supermarkets. The year 2000. The performance Sweet Repression of Ideology presented at the exhibition Collapse of Illusions. Sitting in wheelchair, I was reading extracts devoted to national ideology from the books of two Armenian academicians, published that year. Then, tearing pages I threw them into a big pot and boiled them, offering the spectators to eat that dinner. Giving the art a form of social complaint, I am trying to show the invisible, unformed and forbidden layers of ...
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