Ilya Kabakov
Ronald Feldman Gallery
In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges constructs the evocative metaphor of a library with endless rooms as a means of representing the way humanity structures society. The Soviet artist, Ilya Kabakov, also uses the matrix of adjacent rooms to invoke a metaphor of the world in his first solo exhibition in the United States, “Ten Characters.” The show consisted of ten, specially constructed rooms flanking a central hallway. The rooms took the form of a communal apartment, common to most Soviet metropolises, in which several families live simultaneously and share a common anteroom, corridor,