In conjunction with Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron, please join us for a presentation of Boris Groys’s 2007 video lecture, Immortal Bodies. Groys will introduce the work, as well as answer questions immediately following. According to Art in America, this exhibition “expands on his idiosyncratic vision with an eclectic selection of off-modern works.” Extending the range of his curatorial debut, the screening of this film grants further insight into Carron’s perspective and influences.

“That is why contemporary art aims at making the corpse look increasingly corpse-like — in order to make impossible further projections of the soul onto works of art.”
-Boris Groys, The Immortal Bodies

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, and, most recently, Going Public.