Gamsutl, 2012
Taus Makhacheva
Gamsutl, 2012
Colour HD video projection
Film still
Image courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Overview
Gamsutl is an ancient Avarian settlement carved out of the mountains in Dagestan. In the late 1950s, its residents began to be moved to collective farms, and today only one person remains. In this video, a man walks among the picturesque ruins, reenacting poses from Franz Roubaud’s late nineteenth-century paintings of the Caucasian War (1817―1964) as well as steps from ‘the Dance of the Collective Farm Brigade Leader', a 1930s North Ossetian dance that combines ethnic folk elements with aspects of the Soviet socialist experience.
2013
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
Artwork Images
Gamsutl
Taus Makhacheva
2012
Colour HD video projection
16 minutes, 1 second, looped
Film still
Image courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Gamsutl
Taus Makhacheva
2012
Colour HD video projection
16 minutes, 1 second, looped
Installation view
Image courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Gamsutl
Taus Makhacheva
2012
Colour HD video projection
16 minutes, 1 second, looped
Installation view
Image courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
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Makhacheva, Taus
Working primarily with video but also with installation, photography and performance, Taus Makhacheva questions the unstable boundary between similarity and difference, acceptance and rejection, and draws attention to efforts to merge, mimic, assimilate or leak into what is other.
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