Featured Art Work and Image Credits

Human Energy

Jessica Segall, USA, Art Prospect Residency Fellow 2022. Film still from Human Energy. During her Residency at Salaam Cinema in Azerbaijan, Jessica focused on our addictive and intimate relationship with oil. Azerbaijan, one of the most prolific oil producing countries, has a unique culture of using crude oil as a medicinal bath and salve. The film considers oil’s toxic legacy as well as its materiality as a medical salve.

Recording the sounds of the landfill

Photo by Annie Albagli, USA, Art Prospect Residency Fellow 2021. During her Residency at Art East in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Annie researched the city landfill, “delving into memories and stories of items discarded to re-contextualize what disintegrates into our air and is then absorbed into our lungs and moves with us in our bodies.”

"You don't believe me..."

Farrah Karapetian, USA, Art Prospect Residency Fellow 2021, prepares the installation of the multimedia project “You don’t believe me…”. During her Residency at The Ilkhom Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Farrah researched cotton harvest traditions, collaborated with local people to represent their experiences of picking cotton, and created new artwork.

Underwater Flows

Mishiko Sulakauri, Georgia, ArtsLink International Fellow 2020. Project in collaboration with Unlisted Projects, Austin, TX, 2021. Each dotted location on the map was planted and seeded with native milkweed to create a system of support for migrating monarch butterflies, mitigating adverse effects of genetic modification of milkweed.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Mikheil Sulakauri, Georgia. Installation at the Art Prospect Festival 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Body of Work in Costume

Mariela Gemisheva, Bulgaria, ArtsLink International Fellow 2013. Presentation at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Balance

Vitto Valentinov, Bulgaria, ArtsLink International Fellow 2014. Interactive installation at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, Cincinnati, OH.

The Future Will Be Bright

Ivaylo Hristov, Bulgaria, ArtsLink International Fellow 2019. Drawing on paper, ink and graphite, handwritten text, from Lightflight series, 2019.

Use the Future Wisely

Ivaylo Hristov, Bulgaria, ArtsLink International Fellow 2019. Drawing on paper, ink and graphite, handwritten text, 18×13 cm, from Lightflight series, 2018.

Now / Future

Dan Perjovschi, Romania, ArtsLink International Fellow 1995. Drawing on paper, 2021.

FLIGHT

Ivaylo Hristov, Bulgaria, ArtsLink International Fellow 2019. Gold foil and text, 140 x 140 cm. From the open studio exhibition Searching For Gold High And Low, DARC, University of California Santa Cruz.

Work in progress for the Grundmauer project

Fabian Knecht, Germany, Back Apartment Residency 2019. Part of the Bruch show, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2019. Photo taken at the Gulf of Finland.

Empty City Inside Out

Sergiy Petlyuk, Ukraine, ArtsLink International Fellow 2012. Site-specific installation at Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

I CAN FEEL THE DISTANCE

Fedor Hiroshige, Russia, project at the Art Prospect Festival 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo by Ivan Karpov.

Bukhara Dictionary

Antonina Slobodchikova, Belarus, Art Prospect Network Residency 2017. Installation, Bukhara Photo Gallery, Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Photo by Shavkat Boltaev.

First Community Picnic Participants

Project by Khurshed Rasulzoda, Tajikistan, Art Prospect Network Residency 2017. Part of the Public Facades project, Chisinau, Moldova.

Lines of Bukhara

Alisher Primkulov, Tajikistan, Art Prospect Network Residency 2018. Exhibition, Bukhara Photo Gallery, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Workshop

Iman Aoun, Palestine, ArtsLink International Fellow 2013 and 2019

Artist collaborative SuttonBeresCuller, Seattle, WA, ArtsLink US Fellow 2015. Site-specific installation, Novi Sad, Serbia.

Rhythm-Duck

Sever-7 at the IV Art Prospect Festival: Games, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015. Photo by Ivan Karpov.

Upon the living body (По живому)

Nadya Sayapina, Belarus, Art Prospect Intensive 2019. Performance in Odesa, Ukraine. Photo by Yury Kruchak.

Art Prospect Intensive 2019, Odesa, Ukraine

Participants left to right: Aigerim Ospanova, Kazakhstan; Alexey Rumyantsev, Tadjikistan; and Olga Zovskaya, Ukraine. Photo by Yury Kruchak.

Art Prospect Intensive 2019, Odesa, Ukraine

Participants left to right: Muratbek Djumaliev, Kyrgyzstan; Nadya Sayapina, Belarus; Oleksii Salmanov, Ukraine; Armenak Grigoryan, Armenia; and Natasha Marinenko, Ukraine. Photo by Yury Kruchak.

Migrants, Picnic across the border

JR, France. Project in Tecate, Mexico – U.S.A., 2017.

A cactus rests on broken glass: Beirut

Myriam Boulos, Lebanon. Photo for TIME magazine, 2020.

Imaginary Itinerants

Project by Victoria Myronyuk, Ukraine, with the participation of students of the Naukma Theater. Kyiv, Ukraine, Art Prospect Festival 2018. Photographer Alexander Kovalenko.