Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Introduction
In Diverse Estimations Little Moscow opens as two dogs wander the interior of a dilapidated former factory building that was used by the military as an interrogation and torture facility. A young man hiding amidst trees and brush on the outlying hills of Fatsa anxiously yells into the valley below to signal a comrade. The film continues as a series of short disjointed vignettes, edited into a non-linear narrative that is visually and palpably coherent. Capturing the inconsistencies and mythologies that arise in the gaps of personal and collective memory and written history, Çavusoglu achieves a visually dehistoricized estimation of the human experience of remembering events and forming memories.
Asli Çavusoglu lives in Istanbul. Her work in various mediums-film, video, writing, performance, installation, and sculpture-focuses on disrupting and expanding commonly accepted historical narratives and the formation and perpetuation of those narratives.
A. Will Brown
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