Artwork Details
- Artist Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva
- Title Ride the Caspian
- Date 2011
- Medium 2-channel video installation, HD colour, surround sound, wall-mounted digital photographs
- Credit Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation
Overview
Almagul Menlibayeva and Bahar Behbahani explore the dialogue between two ancient cultures that border the Caspian Sea on the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia. Their collaborative video probes the relationship between the nomadic pagan traditions of the Turkic/Kazakh tribes apparent in the industrialized Post-Soviet environment of Kazakhstan, and the Persian traditions of Iran’s longstanding agricultural and urbanised civilisation.
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Menlibayeva, Almagul
Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.
Behbahani, Bahar
Bahar Behbahani is a multidisciplinary artist whose work stages an ongoing conceptual dialogue with memory and erasure.