Alexey Parygin What Is to Be Done?/ Exhibition catalogue. SPb: Sign. — 2023. — 70 p. — P. 38. (Rus)
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A marker of post-urban tendencies in contemporary society, to a certain extent, is the ever-increasing interest in archaic practices of clan-tribal identification: tattoos, scarification, piercing, various types of body deformation, implantation and branding. Modern subcultures are no longer limited solely to slang, graffiti, or image. This social vector is not a random and temporary phenomenon. Rather, on the contrary, human nature, the archetypal nature compressed by artificial boundaries, seeks a way out.

— Alexey Parygin on Posturbanism Art Project

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A marker of post-urban tendencies in contemporary society, to a certain extent, is the ever-increasing interest in archaic practices of clan-tribal identification: tattoos, scarification, piercing, various types of body deformation, implantation and branding. Modern subcultures are no longer limited solely to slang, graffiti, or image. This social vector is not a random and temporary phenomenon. Rather, on the contrary, human nature, the archetypal nature compressed by artificial boundaries, seeks a way out." in the context of "Alexey Parygin What Is to Be Done?/ Exhibition catalogue. SPb: Sign. — 2023. — 70 p. — P. 38. (Rus)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Alexey Parygin

About Alexey Parygin

Alexey Borisovich Parygin Алексе́й Бори́сович Па́рыгин (b. December 2, 1964, Leningrad). His father Boris Parygin was a social psychologist.