About the author

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina  are a well-known art duo of artists who created their own version of conceptual art in the line of the Moscow Conceptualism school. This version was distinguished by the active use of pictorial and  plastic techniques along with the creation of texts, photographs and  performances. Indeed, until the mid-1970s, both artists managed to become masters in the  field of traditional art.
Turning to  conceptualism, they combined in their works the entertaining sociology of Ilya Kabakov, the play with borrowed styles characteristic of Komar and  Melamid, the metaphysics of Eric Bulatov and the existential experiences of Andrei Monastyrsky. The result was their  numerous total installations, in which the explored space of life does not belong to an alien and  outside character, but, despite the  exotic ethnographic seasoning, to the authors themselves.

Works are in collections: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne.