Love strong as death, 2013–2021
262 videos shot on Samsung M7500 Emporio Armani mobile phone, approximately 4 minutes each; also presented as a single-channel composite version composed of 61 videos, 04:59 min
The video of Dmitri Sarkisov Love Strong as Death is a desperate manifesto of escape from the logic of the machine that absorbs individual human existences. The modern world, having lost any purpose, turns into an endless carousel of means, the ultimate purpose of which eludes any rational understanding. A series of short videos by Sarkisov, as it were, seeks to keep in our perception the moments of the work of an irrational, post-humanistic whole. This stop is necessary in order to remind everyone of the ever-remaining possibility of an outcome. This outcome, however, does not mean a detached distance or an attempt to evade responsibility, but, on the contrary, actualizes a person as a source of any circumstances and gives hope that someday we will have the strength to regain control over them.
— Ilya Budraitskis
Exhibitions
2025
Time:lapse, Curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice
A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2025
Dmitri Sarkisov: Tense Balance, Curated by Momik Vardanyan
Studio 20, Yerevan, Armenia
2022
Dmitri Sarkisov: Car Wash
Fabrika CCI, Moscow, Russia