Artists		Stephen J. Shanabrook | Project : Morgue Chocoltae		Projects | Biography | Bibliography | Press
Annouchka Brochet  Marina Chernikova  Valery Chtak  Group exhibition  Dubossarsky - Vinogradov  Alla Esipovich  Laszlo Fehér  Dasha Fursey  Georgy Gurianov  Valery Koshlyakov  Vlada Krassilnikova  Andrei Molodkin  Ivan Plusch  Aidan Salakhova  Arsen Savadov  Sergei Serp  Yuri Shabelnikov  Stephen J. Shanabrook  Sergey Shekhovtsov  Rupert Shrive  Olga Tobreluts  Evgeny Yufit		RUSSIAN & AMERICAN MORGUE CHOCOLATES Consumption alone has become the manner in which life is sustained. In this artificial state life’s processes cannot come full circle. These processes become upended in a single direction; movements both physical and psychological become stilted and reactionary. The chocolate molds were made from impressions collected at morgues in both Russia and America. Through the hint of digestion or thought of, these wounds structured superfluously in chocolate are temporarily removed for the living to process again, not to acquaint us with death per say, but to nourish life in the sense of our connection to. It goes without saying that barriers are relieved of their duties when one makes a connection between body temperature and the temperature of chocolate or associations with religious practices and biological orders. But laying a grid over chaos seems nonsensical; it chaos, seems better understood through the making of such generous connection. Haarlem, the Netherlands 1994		Wedding Favors, detail