Sergey Bugaev Afrika
Sergey Bugaev Afrika creates ‘metaphors of art’s psyche’.
Art needs to be protected against itself, he says. Artists are driven by the ambition to be discovered by art business. This ‘frenzy’ damages the artists and their art, argues Bugaev. Someone needs to intervene.
With Protection Bugaev took the lead with a substitute ‘compulsory’ hospital admission. He spent 24 hours in an isolation cell on the psychiatric ward of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
With Protection Bugaev took the lead with a substitute ‘compulsory’ hospital admission. He spent 24 hours in an isolation cell on the psychiatric ward of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
Bugaev distilled the observation material footage into an installation for the Inertia show.
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