![Item #46237 [Print] Super Taus and Camel Yasha. Taus Makhacheva.](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46237.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699972100)
[Print] Super Taus and Camel Yasha.
Kaspiisk, Dagestan. 2014. 33 x 23 1/4 inches. A fine copy. Item #46237
Photographic print on paper. Commissioned by R&D [HOME] Magazine, and photographed by Iman Guseinov. The work is an early example of Taus Makhacheva's alter ego: Super Taus, which the artist often uses in her performance art as contrapuntal gesture for the equilibration of gender forces.
Taus Makhacheva (b. 1983 Moscow, Russia) first gained notice at the 57th Venice Biennale with her video installation Tightrope, which showed a tightrope walker carrying copies of paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts as he balanced on a rope. "Her origins often form a starting point for examining the tensions between tradition and modernity and between assimilation and cultural authenticity following the Sovietization of Dagestan. Descended from the Avars, the predominant ethnic group within Dagestan, but born in Moscow, educated in London, and currently splitting her time between Russia and the rest of the world, Makhacheva uses her works to interpret national narrative. While various aspects of this approach might suggest self-colonization, she offsets this charge through her dry humor. She examines the symbolic dimension of cultural life and the relationships between history, politics and popular culture. Her earlier works test the limits of self-identification through the cultural or physical landscape by using experiments with costuming, camouflage, and choreography."(1)
"Oftentimes humorous, her works attempt to test the resilience of images, objects and bodies in today’s world. In most of her performance-based works, she analyzes “the body as a supporting structure”, repeatedly challenged in off limits situations. The artist's alter ego 'Super Taus', engages with her ancestral home of Dagestan, using strength to create provocative and ironic pieces."(2)
References:
1. "The Strong Ones, Taus Makhacheva," Galéria HIT, 2019: (www.pilot-projects.info/en/works/the-strong-ones/).
2. www. thearmoryshow.com/info/past-exhibitors/2019/super-taus.
3. Sara Raza: "Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion" ( London: Black Dog Press, 2022).
Price: $450.00