the exhibition proto-archive , a monument to the modern state, opened at the vadim sidur museum on theartist’s birth. his work is permeated with tragedy, reflections on life and death. alya sharifulina got acquainted with the master’s works. not from thin layers of marble or monumental bronze, but from everything that can be found in garbage heaps, landfills, he carved human suffering, i feel like an instrument for measuring fear, on the right is our fear, someone else’s fear, on the left. vadim sidur survived the holodomor in childhood, was seriously injured in the war, the artist belonged to a generation whose share of many trials fell, to a generation in which there was a strict culture of silence, about all the shocks and pain, only the sculptures he created were able to tell about them, he helped them. to talk about the tragic events of the 20th century and the feeling of new tragedies in the future, it is impossible to use the language of eraden. sitor is looking for his own system of signs, a form that is most adequate to the content; he seems to create hieroglyphs from sculptur