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SLAVS & TATARS Biography Selected Works
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SlavsandTatars Kidnapping Mountains (exhibition), 2009
A mythical and brutal dreamscape, Kidnapping Mountains at NETWERK Center for Contemporary Art looks at the multiplicity of languages, cultural affinities, and identities found in Geography's case study of complexity otherwise known as the Caucasus. Through printed matter, sculpture, and ritualized topography, the exhibit explores the linguistic, social and political phenomena of a region swinging between the extremes of realpolitik and science fiction.
The installation consists of various-sized peaks from 1.5 x 1.5 x 1m to 4.7 x 4.7 x 3.2m, wood, covered with wooden veneers and mirror.
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Resist Resisting God, 2009
Mirror mosaic, 150 x 100 cm
edition of 3 (+1AP)
Each edition with varied pattern, 4 x silver 1 x gold.
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Resist Resisting God (detail), 2009
Mirror mosaic, 150 x 100 cm
edition of 3 (+1AP)
Each edition with varied pattern, 4 x silver 1 x gold.
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Dig the Booty, 2009
A transliteration of an aphorism across Latin, Cyrillic and Farsi, in homage to the vicissitudes in the Azeri alphabet.
Vacuum-formed plastic, 91 x 64 cm
edition of 3 (+1AP)
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Kidnap Over-Here, 2009
The Georgians living west of the Likhi mountain range, considered to be the natural border between Europe and Asia, refer to themselves as the "over-here's" and to those living on the east side of the range as the "over-there's".
Screenprint, 120 x 176 cm
edition of 10
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars CHVEN SAKURTVELOS GAUMARDJOS, 2009
The original expression CHVEN SAKARTVELOS GAUMARDJOS is roughly translated as LONG LIVE GEORGIA or VIVE GEORGIA. By changing the A of Sakartvelos to a U to make SAKURTVELOS, the phrase becomes LONG LIVE KURDISTAN and the unresolved geopolitical identity of one mountain people is replaced by that of another.
Wall painting, 31 x 450 cm
edition of 1
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Cheremshah, 2007
Lambda print, 49 x 33.5 cm (framed)
edition of 3 (+1AP)
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars AaaaaaahhhhZERI!!!, 2009
A tribute to the Azeri alphabet, which changed three times in the 20th century - first from Arabic to Latin in 1928, then to Cyrillic in 1939, and finally back to Latin in 1991 - causing immense damage to the cultural heritage of the republic, not to mention making generations of Azeris immigrants within their own country.
Screenprint, 70 x 85 cm
edition of 100
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Camels, 2008
Lambda print, 49 x 33.5 cm (framed)
edition of 3
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Camels, 2008
Lambda print, 49 x 33.5 cm (framed)
edition of 3
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars The League of Impatience, 2008
Off-set print
Triptych - 24 x 33 inches (each)
1/100
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Last of the Eurasianists, 2008
Off-set print
27 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches
1/100
   
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Histoire du Monde, 2008
Off-set print
33 x 46 inches
1/3
   
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars A Thirteenth Month Against Time, 2008
Off-set printing book in case
1/100
   
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars A Thirteenth Month Against Time, 2008
Off-set printing book in case
1/100
   
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars A Thirteenth Month Against Time, 2008
Off-set printing book in case
1/100
   
   

 

 

SlavsandTatars Slavs and Tatars
A Thirteenth Month Against Time, 2008
Installation view at
Newman Popiashvili Gallery
   
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