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Our presentation has been inspired by Slavs and Tatars' curatorial theme, which centres around textiles in contemporary art from Central Asia. The works in our presentation explore this theme in their unique ways and through various mediums.

Ala Ebtekar draws inspiration from the cosmos and for a quarter century has situated his art practice as a relentless leveling, exploding, and collapsing of time and space to bring steadying attention to the contemporary moment. In his Untitled (Manuscript) series, Ebtekar executes a dual removal of the words. Not only does the artist literally remove …