Our Wonderful Culture is proud to announce its collaboration with We R The Nomads supporting Firouz FarmanFarmaian's exhibition, Gates of Turan for the Kyrgyz Republic Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Building on the foundations of the Central Asian pavilion in 2005, The Kyrgyz Republic participates for the first time in its history as a dedicated country pavilion at the 2022 International Art Exhibition.
Curated by Janet Rady, the exhibition investigates the immaterial substance of memory through the sourcing of archaic cosmogonies across sacred material, derived semiology, and spiritual realms. The artist draws inspiration from what he defines as a nomadic displacement, the result of his childhood exile following the 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution that led him to investigate his clan's tribal past and in this instance, the hereditary ties linking him to central Asia, Kyrgyz culture and to the myths and epics related to the idea of Turan.
Hercules Fisherman, CEO of Our Wonderful Culture, says, "To elaborate on this ethnogenesis vision, the artist traveled to Kyrgyzstan in 2021. Informed by the close cultural ties to the land of his birth, he channeled his ancestral heritage into researching current day craft practices inspired by the Kyrgyz national epic, the Manas".
Fisherman reiterates, "Travelling into the remote highland regions of YSSIK KOL and NARYN, his immersions within the tribal and nomadic cultures resulted in a collaboration with the local craftswomen and the creation of textile-based installations through a multiplicity of elements including raw yak wool, felt, Kyrgyz yurt structures and locally sourced pigments. Elaborating on the multiform versatility of his post-tribal explorations; his retrofuturist sensibility and preservationist planetarium, for Gates of Turan the artist has layered these traditional nomadic elements with sound and video installations, added to an additive augmented mixed-reality proposal."
Fisherman adds, "We are also proud to announce that S J Global Investment will be our Patron, and this initiative comes for S J’s love for art, and especially to encourage artists in the UAE. Please feel free to join us for a zoom meeting. Our Wonderful Culture Matinée Private View is on the 12th at Waldorf, Astoria."
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