Ilya Iossifovich Kabakov, the father of Russian conceptual art, died on May 27 at the age of 89. Kabakov's art told the story of daily life in the Soviet Union, from the most ethereal to the most trivial.
His work highlighted the always possible drift of a utopia towards disaster, the germ of destruction being part of any system that becomes unique and therefore authoritarian. In 1995 his installation "C'est ici que nous vivre" occupied the entire Forum of the Centre Pompidou for several months.