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Along the fault lines of Central Asia, Saodat Ismailova’s films and installations interweave rituals, myths and dreams with the textures of everyday life. With When the Water Turns to Wind, she continues her longstanding exploration of the region’s complex history and culture, its political and social transformations after the fall of the Soviet Union and the ecological challenges of the present. Absence is a central motif: knowledge lost in historical ruptures, dried-up bodies of water and species gone extinct. For Ismailova, what has disappeared continues to shape cultural memory and the collective imaginary of Turkestan—the vast region that once stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi Desert and united diverse cultures, languages and religions.
In her newly developed installation When the Water Turns to Wind, Ismailova synthesizes her examinations of loss and memory into a narrative about the slowly vanishing Aral Sea. Once one of the largest inland lakes on Earth, the Aral Sea…
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Along the fault lines of Central Asia, Saodat Ismailova’s films and installations interweave rituals, myths and dreams with the textures of everyday life. With When the Water Turns to Wind, she continues her longstanding exploration of the region’s complex history and culture, its political and social transformations after the fall of the Soviet Union and the ecological challenges of the present. Absence is a central motif: knowledge lost in historical ruptures, dried-up bodies of water and species gone extinct. For Ismailova, what has disappeared continues to shape cultural memory and the collective imaginary of Turkestan—the vast region that once stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi Desert and united diverse cultures, languages and religions.
In her newly developed installation When the Water Turns to Wind, Ismailova synthesizes her examinations of loss and memory into a narrative about the slowly vanishing Aral Sea. Once one of the largest inland lakes on Earth, the Aral Sea…



















