2024-05-27 12:11:22
The house for modern artwork YARAT offered a bunch exhibition “Monument to Freedom” on the Museum of Azerbaijan Portray of the XX-XXI centuries in Baku, YARAT reported to Day.Az.
The exhibition introduced collectively in a single house works of portray, graphics, sculpture, graffiti, in addition to video works commissioned by YARAT.
The exhibition contains the works of artists – Nazima Babayeva, Kamala Ahmed, Javada Mirjavadova, Togrula Sadygzade, Sirusa Mirzazade, Shahpelenga Mamedova, Rasima Babayeva, Ashrafa Murada, Malika Agamalova, Mir Nadira Zeynalova, Rashada Babayeva, Museiba Amirova, Adylya Yusifova, Adylya Shikhalieva, Sabini Shikhlinskoy, Leyla Gabulova, Elnary Nasirli, Arzu Rzaeva, Amrulli Israfilova, Emilya Medzhnunova and Elturana Mamedova.
Within the shadows of the dominant narratives of the previous, there are typically untold tales, silenced voices and buried truths. The huge Soviet empire, constructed on the ideas of Marxism-Leninism and the promise of the approaching creation of communism, left an indelible mark on the historical past of the twentieth century.
Having formed the lives and considering of thousands and thousands of individuals with its utopian goals and authoritarian levers, it left a legacy after its collapse within the type of a sequence of private tragedies.
The exhibition “Monument to Freedom” confronts the results of the years of Sovietization and explores their affect on the person, collective reminiscence, nationwide id and collective consciousness.
Through the Soviet interval, nonconformist artists performed a decisive function in overcoming the ideological restrictions of the regime and increasing the boundaries of inventive expression. These artists had been each the vanguard of covert protest and opponents of the regime, attempting to reclaim and reinterpret the heritage of their individuals, opposing Soviet hegemony, which fiercely fought towards the historical past and cultural traditions of Azerbaijan.
Photographic works, video compositions and installations by modern artists, in dialogue with them, critically look at the contradictions of socialist rhetoric, questioning its relationship to nationwide id, native tradition and traditions.
The works commissioned by YARAT discover the trauma of injustice and its lasting affect on particular person and collective reminiscence. The group exhibition “Monument to Freedom” explores the historic, social and political expertise of Azerbaijan and presents how troublesome the trail to freedom is.
The exhibition presents works from the collections of the Azerbaijan Nationwide Museum of Artwork, the Azerbaijan State Artwork Gallery, the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan, Nar Gallery and Unibank.
The curator of the exhibition is Farah Alakbarli.
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