Courtesy of the artist and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
Evgeny Antufiev
Born in 1986, Kyzyl, Russia
Lives and works in Moscow, Russia
Overview
Evgeny Antufiev (b. 1986 in Kyzyl, Russia) lives and works in Moscow, Russia. Antufiev grew up in the Siberian republic of Tuva, a remote region which maintains active practices of alchemy, oral folklore and shamanism to this day. It serves as a point of departure for the artist’s engagement with real but mythical space – one where bodies of knowledge are able to accumulate and hybridise across time and place. The artist carves wood, boils bones and embroiders traditional fabrics with recurring ...Read more