Carpet, 2006
Taus Makhacheva
Carpet, 2006
Colour video
1 minute, 6 seconds, looped
Installation view
Photo courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Artist Statement
In this video, I constantly roll in and out of an old Dagestani carpet, known as a kilim. The carpet’s design symbolises the Garden of Eden.
2013
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
Artwork Images
Carpet
Taus Makhacheva
2006
Colour video
1 minute, 6 seconds, looped
Installation view
Photo courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Carpet
Taus Makhacheva
2006
Colour video
1 minute, 6 seconds, looped
Film still
Photo courtesy of the Artist and Laura Bulian Gallery
Carpet
Taus Makhacheva
2006
Colour video
1 minute, 6 seconds, looped
Installation view
Photo 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.