Critical Writing Index

Her Dagestan: Taus Makhacheva

by Stephanie Bailey

Art AsiaPacific, Mar/Apr, no. 87

Artist's profile of Taus Makhacheva. The artist is granddaughter to Rasul Gamzatov, a famous Dagestani poet and Soviet Avar poet Gamzat Tsadasa was the artist's great-grandfather. Her family as well as her Russian-Dagestani identity are noted as informing her work. Makhacheva's video art illustrates humanity's deteriorating connection to nature and landscape, and the tension between tradition and progress.

ITEM 2014.052 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

WalkTaus Makhacheva

EndeavourTaus Makhacheva

A Space of CelebrationTaus Makhacheva

Let Me Be Part of the NarrativeTaus Makhacheva

CarpetTaus Makhacheva

RekhenTaus Makhacheva

GamsutlTaus Makhacheva