Taus Makhacheva presents her artwork Gamsutl, a video recorded in the ruins of an Avare village, an ethnic group from the Dagestan region, located on the Caucasus mountains, where dwelt only one man. The artist recounts how she was taken aback by the way the buildings were extensions of the boulder, and describes how she deals with the co-extension of the body toward the local architecture, and with the bodily constitution of a story through the pain of a solitary body. Taus also talks about how the video is divided in three parts: an initial part inspired by Franz Roubaud’s paintings portraying the Caucasian Wars; a middle part based on the movements carried out by leaders of collective farm brigades from the Soviet Union era; and a part that alludes to the history of performances in the eighties and seventies, in which the ballet dancer maps the space with his own body.
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