Don't Miss The Cue

The Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale of Art

20/04/2024 - 25/11/2024


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How do we perform belonging? How do we embody the character of a “foreigner”? Uzbek diaspora artist Aziza Kadyri, together with her collective Qizlar, explores the experiences of Central Asian women and how they reimagine their identities in the process of migration. In a deconstructed theatre backstage, costumes become sculptures alongside audiovisual work co-created with Tashkent-based Qizlar Collective, rooted in women’s narratives, exploring embodied memories and the relationship between the body and its environment. The installation links Uzbek Suzani embroidery and AI image generation, unveiling AI’s biases and its global impact on shared memories. While in the space, the viewer is invited to embody both the observer and the observed, shifting between states of exposure—changes perceptible only to the onlookers beyond this space of accidental performance.

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Organiser: Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation

Special support: Saida Mirziyoyeva, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Commissioner: Gayane Umerova, Chairperson of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation

Curators: Institution of the Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent

Artist: Aziza Kadyri

Associate artists: Qizlar Collective (Anastasia Sever, Sofia Seitkhalil, Gulnoza Irgasheva)

Suzani master: Madina Kasimbaeva

Conceptual development: Kamila Zakhidova

Soundscape: Fanis Sakellariou, Amalia Aibusheva

Project management: Laziza Akbarova, Bekzod Ulmasov, Malika Zayniddinova

Exhibition design and architecture: ADRA Studio, Sophia Bengebara, Pauline Ouazana, Othmane Bengebara

Artist’s assistant: Camilla Anvar

Studio coordinator: Denis Stolyarov

Graphic design: Studio Pupilla

Exhibition production: We Exhibit

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