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Helen. Wooljacket with silver collar and cuffs. Karl Lagerfeldt, $627. Knit pants Donna Karen, $320
© Alexander Khartjenko © Arsen Savadov
Helen. Wooljacket with silver collar and cuffs. Karl Lagerfeldt, $627. Knit pants Donna Karen, $320
Helen. Wooljacket with silver collar and cuffs. Karl Lagerfeldt, $627. Knit pants Donna Karen, $320
Photo repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Helen. Wooljacket with silver collar and cuffs. Karl Lagerfeldt, $627. Knit pants Donna Karen, $320

by Arsen Savadov
by Alexander Khartjenko
Artist (Ukraina, född 1962)
Artist (Ukraina, född 1965)
Date1997
MediumChromogenic print, type C
DimensionsBildmått: 76 × 101,6 cm Ram: 78 × 103,7 × 4 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2001
Countries
Ukraina
Object NumberMOM/2001/245
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkArsen Savadov’s photographic series of models posing in contemporary fashion in a graveyard was published in a fashion magazine. The titles are the names of the models, the fashion houses that designed the garments, and their price in dollars. In the background funerals and burials are taking place, with mourners gathered around coffins about to be lowered into the ground. The series from this old orthodox churchyard in Kiev is part of the larger project “Deepinsider”, in which the artist explored other places where people carry out their work, including a mine and a greenhouse. Combining fashion with a graveyard may appear blasphemous or provocative, but death is a given subject for Savadov. Only cheerful Americans can avoid discussing it, he once said.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks "MM: ID 1102:1" Titel på ramens baksida Selected exhibition history Efter Muren: Konst och kultur i det postkommunistiska Europa (1999-2000) Hamburger Bahnhof Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues After the wall : art and culture in post communist Europe : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 16 october 1999 - 16 january 2000]