"I Dream of the Stans" Exhibition
Winkleman Gallery
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In conjunction with Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008, Winkleman Gallery is extremely pleased to present I Dream of the Stans, an exhibition of new video by leading contemporary artists in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Co-curated by independent curator Leeza Ahmady, Murat Orozobekov, and Edward Winkleman, the exhibition surveys the range of powerful new works emerging from this often overlooked region of the world. Since the incredible critical acclaim that greeted the first Central Asian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2005, contemporary artists from Afghanistan and the former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have drawn an increasing amount of attention from Western curators, museums and galleries.
[Image: Almagul Menlibayeva “Jihad(video still)” (2004) single-channel video, color, sound 4'48" min.]
Almagul Menlibayeva, "Jihad" (video still), 2004
Media
Schedule
from March 20, 2008 to April 26, 2008
Artist(s)
Vyacheslav Akhunov, Rahraw Omarzad, Almagul Menlibayeva, Jamshed Khalilov et al.