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In spite of this, something stops us declaring Papco’s work to be per-
formance art comparable to theatre, which presents the actions of natu-
ral and social bodies simultaneously in conflicts between various per-
formers. On the other side is a sequence of events of non-living natural
things, revived and disintegrating images, natural and cultural objects,
some of them depicting living or formerly living people. When something
happens to the statues, something happens to the sculpture group. If
something happens to the visitors to the gallery, it is already not part of

10. Stefan Papco, Miroslav, detail of the sculptural
group Citizens, 2015. Photo: archive of the author