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YUKHANANOV: I must admit, I relate to this term ["new erotica"] extremely negatively. I have a hard time imagining art that deals, for example, specifically with eroticism, just as I can't imagine art that, for example, is specifically engaged in agriculture.

... Art can not "serve" the world. Moreover it cannot serve a certain specific aspect of the human experience. Eroticism is a specific aspect of the human experience, and art cannot lock itself away in the territory of specificities alone....