Exhibition

Vladimir Sorokin: DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK

28 Jun-13 Jul 2024
PV 28 Apr 2024, 6-9pm

Shtager&Shch

London W1W 8SQ

Overview

Vladimir Sorokin’s new project
DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK
Curated by Marat Gelman

Looking into the eyes of my characters, brought to life by rapidly evolving AI, I understood that literature in our time has ceased to be a book that can be taken off the shelf, read, and placed back. The 21st century challenges literature: can it correspond? Is it falling behind? Can it keep up? Or is it hopelessly outdated and now condemned to forever settle in second-hand bookstores, libraries, and philological articles? We, the writers of our century, have to answer these questions. The fate of paper pages covered with letters, bound, pulled together by a cover, forming the well-known object from which humanity has not yet parted, depends on our answers.

That's why the clones of the great classics look so intensely into our eyes.

Text by Vladimir Sorokin