diff --git a/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py b/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
index 18e42e9cbd9..d25811f1d61 100644
--- a/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
+++ b/src/poetry/installation/wheel_installer.py
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ def enable_bytecode_compilation(self, enable: bool = True) -> None:
     def install(self, wheel: Path) -> None:
         with WheelFile.open(wheel) as source:
             try:
-                source.validate_record()
+                # Content validation is temporarily disabled because of
+                # pypa/installer's out of memory issues with big wheels. See
+                # https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7983
+                source.validate_record(validate_contents=False)
             except _WheelFileValidationError as e:
                 self.invalid_wheels[wheel] = e.issues
             install(
diff --git a/tests/installation/test_executor.py b/tests/installation/test_executor.py
index 0ec3653ebcf..31663c5f629 100644
--- a/tests/installation/test_executor.py
+++ b/tests/installation/test_executor.py
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ def test_execute_prints_warning_for_yanked_package(
         assert error.count("yanked") == 0
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7983")
 def test_execute_prints_warning_for_invalid_wheels(
     config: Config,
     pool: RepositoryPool,