Russian art collective AES+F looks set to hit the headlines (again) in its home country with the launch of the "Defilé" series (2000-07) of lightbox works at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (Moscow Biennale, 25 September-25 October). These images, seen at Miami's Bass Museum last year, show a selection of unidentified, wizened corpses digitally clad in haute couture clothing. "In granting these morbid forms a sense of dignity and beauty in death, in a sense an afterlife, we hope our audience will find something of value in this project," says AES+F. What kind of reaction will the macabre works get in the Russian capital, home of both the super rich and the impoverished?

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