Atelier Sovetski

About the work Orkhan Huseynov Atelier Sovetski 2014 Installation 8 Looped Videos Orkhan Huseynov’s practice spans across video, installation and wall works in various media, often with stark social commentary. Exploring the full potential of the local vernacular, from Soviet anecdotes and obsolete lifestyles of neighborhoods now subject to gentrification, to elements of traditional dancing and tea-drinking, Huseynov draws out a map of contemporary folklore. In his works religious rites conflate with office politics and tacit voices are deconstructed to their signifiers and mediated through the common language of art. Orkhan Huseynov’s Atelier Sovetsky is an eight-channel video installation dedicated to the theme of the Baku street known as ‘Sovetskaya’ (meaning Soviet Street). In Sov ...