Sergei Paradjanov Museum
Artist's house-museum of collages and assemblages built from scraps, wrapped around a hillside courtyard.
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This guide to the Sergei Parajanov Museum in Yerevan starts with an absence: the filmmaker who designed this hillside house as a garden full of peacocks died in October 1990, seven months before it opened, and never once stood in its courtyard. It goes back to the years Soviet authorities sent him to a labor camp, officially for trafficking icons, where he had no film stock or crew and instead built art from whatever a prisoner could touch, foil bottle caps, cloth scraps, dried grass, prison tin. The guide carries that same instinct through the rooms you walk now, filled with busts, dolls and hats made from broken glass, feathers, rope and pressed flowers.
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