Trans-Siberian Amazons, 2005
Installation, 00:02:03 min, 150 x (80 x 60 x 30 cm).
© Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev. Photo: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7733_M482).
Trans Siberian Amazons was originally shown in the first Central Asian Pavillion of the Venice Biennale. The installation, in a space constructed out of transport bags, unveils the reality behind the lasting custom of smuggling Chinese goods along the Trans-Siberian railway. The portrait of two women, who out of economic necessity trade domestic goods, gives the audience an insight into the survival strategies within the unsettled Post-Soviet environment. The melancholic songs sung at the end of the space contrast the endless line of the railroad as presented on the video’s in the side walls.
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>Bie Michels & M HKA Present: A Public Reflection, on Trans Siberian Amazons
>Trans-Siberian Amazons, 2005 (installation view, EURASIA – A Landscape of Mutability, 2021)
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>Bie Michels & M HKA Present: A Public Reflection, on Trans Siberian Amazons
>Bie Michels & M HKA Present: A Public Reflection, on Trans Siberian Amazons
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> Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev .
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: LATT: Europe at Large #3 Gulnara Kasmaliyeva & Muratbek Djumaliev, Yerbossyn Meldibekov. M HKA, Antwerpen, 21 January 2010 - 07 March 2010.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Tracés. Similarities and dissonants. Kringloopcentrale, Antwerpen, 01 March 2012 - 31 March 2012.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. M HKA, Antwerp, 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Exhibition: EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. M HKA, Antwerp, 08 October 2021 - 23 January 2022.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: internationaal & wereldwijd [international & worldwide].
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> Ensemble: Creative Partnerships.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: CENTRAL ASIA.