Director Saodat Ismailova directing a scene from her "40 Days of Silence" at the Sundance Lab. Photo: Fred Hayes The Sundance Director’s Lab is currently wrapping at the Sundance Institute in Utah, ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Saodat Ismailova is an Uzbek (active in France) artist who was born in 1981.

In space, Uzbek artist Saodat Ismailova is poised between Central Asia and Europe. The stories she wants to tell are ancient. Her tools are modern. As Ismailova told Eurasianet in a recent interview ...

LEILEK, KYRGYZSTAN - MAY 5: A view of damaged buildings on Kyrgyz side after last week's clashes at a disputed section of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border, in Leilek district of the Batken region, ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up Two human rights advocates suing the president of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, are getting their day in court. According to RFE/RL, a court in ...

Ismailova’s type of visual poetry is a great balm for our current geopolitical moment. The work engenders curiosity, and — though there’s a hard limit to what Western audiences can truly understand ...

On June 12, 20-year-old Chechen native Selima Ismailova was arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport as she was preparing to leave the country, fleeing what she has described as years of violent abuse at ...