ondan-bundan: inquiring on culture from this and thats 

Aydan Hasanova

September 15th – November 11th, 2023

Essay by Talia Golland

The installation ondan-bundan: inquiring on culture from this and thats explores the intra-actions within Azerbaijan’s continuously changing identity, by fragmenting projections of Soviet Azerbaijani films onto found objects. ondan-bundan bringsinto conversation scenes from the films Arşın Mal Alan (Rza Tahmasib and Nikolay Leshchenko, 1945), Bir Cənub Şəhərində (Eldar Quliyev, 1969) and Ötən İlin Son Gecəsi (Gülbəniz Əzimzadə, 1983) to reflect on the construction of visual narratives as cultural identifiers in Azerbaijan. This spatial collage brings a view of culture into refraction, reconstruction, evocation, fragmentation, and remembering as effective cultural critique. One that is never stated, constantly becoming in process.

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ondan-bundan, top view of the installation space. There are materials (metals, plexiglass) hanging on clothes lines. There are fragments of film projected in the space.

Documentation by Polina Teif