Her Dagestan: Taus Makhacheva
Art AsiaPacific, Mar/Apr, no. 87
Artist's profile of Taus Makhacheva. The artist is granddaughter to Rasul Gamzatov, a famous Dagestani poet and Soviet Avar poet Gamzat Tsadasa was the artist's great-grandfather. Her family as well as her Russian-Dagestani identity are noted as informing her work. Makhacheva's video art illustrates humanity's deteriorating connection to nature and landscape, and the tension between tradition and progress.
ITEM 2014.052 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Walk – Taus Makhacheva
Endeavour – Taus Makhacheva
A Space of Celebration – Taus Makhacheva
Let Me Be Part of the Narrative – Taus Makhacheva
Carpet – Taus Makhacheva
Rekhen – Taus Makhacheva
Gamsutl – Taus Makhacheva