02/03/2008

imagine art after: Satellite Screening

6pm

TOURISTS IN THEIR OWN CITY
2007, series of 13 photographs, digital print , 297 x 420mm
by Faig Ahmed & Jeyhun Ojadov
Set against the backdrop of contemporary Baku, the series of photographs shows the artists in protest against local inhabitants’ understanding of a modern city.

NAZIR (“The Minister”)
2007, video, 29min segment looped
by Farid Rasulov
Filmed at the ITU unit of a local hospital in Baku, the video features Nazir, a young medic. Disillusioned by a society where money is increasingly becoming a basic value, Nazir believes that emigration is the only way of avoiding a sense of isolation. Unlike many of his compatriots, however, Nazir doesn’t dream of living somewhere in the ‘developed world’. He wants to emigrate to the past.

NEFTELCHEK (Oilswing)
2007, video, 10min segment looped
by Shahin Malikzadeh
As a reaction to a world where wars are fought over natural resources, the artist appropriates the icon of national wealth in Azerbaijan by turning an oil field into an amusement park.