The Border
Participating artists

Hostages of Eternity shows a woman relentlessly sweeping a 100 metre-long section of a road in the rain.

Three Borders is a
made up of the artist's family photos as well as other anonymous (family) photos.
 

This soundscape has panned into different areas of the sound spectrum playing on different “border” locations of the speaker outputs.

Video footage of a cosmetic procedure I underwent to give me one European eyelid is combined with video images of an insect.

Saule Dyussenbina uses motifs for her wallpaper that she has borrowed from Kazakh folk traditions and myths, as well as architectural views of the new Kazakh capital, Astana.

Mugham-Karaoke is a project, which brings together a style of music with a centuries-old tradition.

This untitled video shows Hovsepian walking in circles around a gigantic piece of rock. His movement seems without purpose.Several minutes pass, but nothing happens and nothing changes.

The starting point was the idea to undertake a specific cultural study based on one cultural item. For an artist born in Kazakhstan, a piala (a bowl) became such an artefact.

This newspaper recounts how Nasreddin Hodja went to work in Russia. Nasreddin Hodja is a folk character famous from Bukhara to the Balkans and renowned for his wit and talent for getting himself out of tricky situations.

The pictures on the bricks are taken from the walls of Saint George Cathedral in Yuryev-Polsky that, for almost five hundred years, has been a monument to everything grand and significant that had been incorrectly constructed.

Both artists collaborated under this name and produced site-specific performances in the wake of the Rose Revolution.

The Wedding Dress focuses upon the subjects of the crossing of borders between countries and the crossing borders between personal and public information.
 

Bird Catcher (IV) is based on an observation that the artist made a few years ago in a country in Central Asia: she saw how living birds were packed into small fabric bags at a local bird market and offered for purchase.

19 a Day is a collaboration with Makhachkala-based wedding photographer, Shamil Gadzhidadaev.

The Circular Kinopanorama – Круговая кинопанорама – is a cinema in Moscow, which plays Krugorama: the film is projected on a circular screen with a horizontal 360° view.

The Quantum Nausea is a series of crudely made animated cartoons about the border which, when approached, puts us at risk of falling into a quantum state of uncertainty.

The project is based on the well-known Tajik film Я встретил девушку (I met a girl, 1957). It is a story of an ordinary girl who has a wonderful voice and dreams of performing at the local cultural centre.

Geographically speaking, Europe – wedged between the Atlantic and the Urals – is a small western appendage of the Eurasian continent.

The series consists of two parts. The first part was shot during 2002-2005 in the southern region of Kazakhstan, which, ironically, goes by the name of “Texas” among the locals.

The so-called »Great Hijab Debate« has created waves to this day in Europe but also in other countries, such as Turkey.

Even if »The Border« is not a post-Soviet exhibition as such, it is scarcely possible to avoid this topic.

The work investigates three natural borders: water, land and light.Gilea, or the Kinburn Spit, is a thin foreland in southern Ukraine.