KAZAKHSTAN / GERMANY

Transoxiana Dreams, 2011. HD video, 23 minutes.

AI Realism. Qantar, 2022. Nine prints on paper, 40 cm x 40 cm.

Supported by American-Eurasian Art Advisors

The film Transoxiana Dreàms is a mythological account staged across the vast reaches of Menlibayeva's native Kazakhstan, ravaged by 60 years of Soviet occupation. It leads the audience through the brutally transformed landscape of the Aral Sea where its indigenous people live in the Aralkum, what was once a thriving region, now turned into a desert entirely devoid of water by radical Soviet irrigation policies. The nine frames of AI Realism. Dantar use Al and the data available on the internet to reconstruct the 2022 Kazakh unrest or the January tragedy, as a countermeasure to the information warfare, fake news and conspiracy theories circulated by the secret police.