Into The Future

Overview

The Past, the Present and the Future. These words spell out our evolution and raise a variety of images.

As the generation compelled to live at the turn of two epochs, we became a witness of the history that was made in our presence.

We were raised during Soviet times when there was no past, the present was ordinary and mediocre, but nobody was worried about the future because it was predictable and predetermined.

The majority of our works are based on research of the past and the future. As there is no future without past, in our early works we wanted to touch our Kyrgyz historic roots, which is why our previous works were dedicated to the history of Kyrgyzstan.

Artists are called upon to depict their attitude to the environment and to record the changes in our everyday life and reality. We dare to draw the attention of humanity to the problems that do not seem important today, but that may become a threat tomorrow - and that is our humble message to everyone.

Our future is very vague and we want to represent everyday life in our works, because an artist, when critically depicting reality, influences the future, whether he wants to or not.

The problems that our country faces today are the sources for our works. They are universal problems and that is what makes them our prime focus, but most importantly, they are problems that radically break historic traditions, not only in our country but in the entire world.


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 8.