Erbossyn Meldibekov: Spaces of Central Asia and Mobile Monuments

• In Event: Space and Place in the Cultural Representations of/in the Global East

Abstract

This presentation examines the oeuvre of Kazakh artist Erbossyn Meldibekov through the lenses of scale, from the global space to the miniature and mundane objects, to make sense of the connection between political and artistic representations of Central Asia, historically and currently. It suggests to reflect on Meldibekov’s art as a way to think about the ambiguity of modern history, in which people are not so much united as disunited, not so much liberated as enclosed in new modes of inequality.

Author

• Elena Trubina, UNC at Chapel Hill