At Sapar Contemporary: "Beyond Fragmentation: Contemporary Collage from Central Asia"
![](http://www.tribecatrib.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_photo/Screen Shot 2019-01-15 at 9.32.32 PM.png "<p>"Mantras of the USSR #5," 1977, by Vyacheslav Akhunov</p>")
"Mantras of the USSR #5," 1977, by Vyacheslav Akhunov
On display through February 16.
An excerpt from an essay by Kris Imants Ercums, Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art, Spencer Museum of Art
Today, Central Asia is a region comprised of a diverse ethnic mixture of diasporic communities and indigenous nomadic tribes, the names of which– Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Tajik, and Uzbek–combined with the Persian suffix “stan” or “land of” to form the five countries that comprise this region.
The assemblage of multiple layers and fragmented images in collages produce new concepts and ideas from unexpected juxtaposition, that in the process engender new possibilities and meanings. From the photomontage of Vyacheslav Akhunov to the gif-animations of Saule Dyussenbina Beyond Fragmentation offers insight into the geopolitical realities of contemporary Central Asia.
"Beyond Fragmentation: Contemporary Collage from Central Asia" is at Sapar Contemporary Gallery, 9 N. Moore St.
At right: "Peri," 2012-2013 by Bakhyt Bubikanova