Catalogue presenting Pornopolitics and Other Precedents by the artist Pyotr Pavlensky. Published in 2022, in conjunction with Pavlensky’s first UK solo exhibition at a/political, the catalogue introduces the artist’s theory of ‘Subject-Object Art’ using precedents selected from the events, THREAT (2016), LIGHTING (2018) and PORNOPOLITICS (2022). The catalogue contains texts by the artist and prominent art theorists Boris Groys, Sarah Wilson, Daniel Neofetou, Viktor Misiano, Julian Stallabrass, Jenny Doussan and Michaël La Chance.

Pyotr Pavlensky was born in 1984 in Leningrad. He studied monumental painting at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. In 2012 he began making art that he defined as ‘political’. In 2019, however, the totally blurred boundaries of this term made Pavlensky consider redefining his artistic practice. Calling it ‘subject-object art’, in 2021 he proceeded to articulate a number of basic notions and theoretical foundations, presented publicly for the first time in this catalogue.

Edition of 1000 | Printed in Litho
Softcover: 97 pages
Publisher: MOTHER
Language: English