Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
film "The day of Groundhog"
6'26'' 2014
«Re imagining the New Man / Practicing civic duties through social and visual media»
U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan, Dushanbe Art Ground 2014
synopsis
The film is made in the style of «found footage», within the project «Re imagining the New Man / Practicing civic duties through social and visual media» In this paper, fragments from the Soviet documentaries (the list is given in the closing credits), as well as an element of "time loop", which can be found in many works, including the well-known feature film of Harold Ramis Groundhog Day.
In my work I tried to visualize the phenomenon of "time loop" and show two ways of being human. The first path in a time loop - live to the past and indifference to the present... The second way - a keen interest to the present and as a consequence of a breakthrough in the future
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Arobakash, video art, 3'20’’ 2008 -2012
American University of Central Asia
2015 TOPOGRAFICA Contemporary Art Exhibition, AUCA
The Christensen Fund
Art residence in Hatlon region of Tajikistan
" Contemporary art : from concept to an artifact"
Supported by Regional Program for Culture and Art Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan 2012
synopsis
... Arobakash pushes and rolls a cart through the busy streets of the city. He is maneuvering between cars, pushing the cart on the rise, and keeps it on the descent. He goes round oncoming pedestrians and warns those who are ahead ... Someone sees him as a rickshaw, that pushes a cart under the sounds of exotic music, another as a hero that carries a heavy burden and many simply do not notice him.... But he does not care about the thoughts of passers ... it is time to rest. He lies down on the grass in the shade of trees, smokes coveted potion, and sees through the smoke and leaves, Sun, that slowly turns into the wheel... with a smile on his lips, aware that all changed: people, streets, cars ... the Sun-wheel remained unchanged and accompanied him all day ....
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Signs, video art, 1 '44’’, 2008
Contemporary art project "Pre-Islamic Heritage of Tajikistan.
Non-museum Interpretation" HIVOS, Bactria ACTED
National Museum, Dushanbe 2008
Prize for the best video art at Nomadic Video Festival, Bishkek, 2011
Programmed during 24es Video Instants in Marseilles in November, 2011
synopsis
…everything is interconnected, alive and not alive, all phenomena, overt and covert, connected to each other, including signs. Communication with some signs is difficult, and communication with other is a very simple and feasible using the phone ... I tried to do this by rotating the disc set of the old phone, but unfortunately, after the third attempt - the connection was broken...
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Metamorphosis, videoart, 2'28'' 2008
Contemporary art show exhibition “Original Copy”
Bactria ACTED
Mayakovski theatre, Dushanbe 2008
Appendix:
Video work "Metamorphosis", the carrier DVD, duration 00:02:28
The graphics of the same name size 29,7 x 42,0 cm.- 5 pieces.
Synopsis
a canvas in flames...the ash will serve for creating a fact that has inspired...circle closed.
The basis for this work is the well-known history of the creation of Picasso's masterpiece the "Girls of Avignon". As confirmed by art historians, the inspiration for this great artwork was an exhibition of African sculptures, which Picasso visited.
We intended to track the connection between the artwork of Picasso and the artwork of the unknown African artists, who are unknown to us and who have so impressed the great Spaniard. For this, we needed to transfer the reproduction of the image into a different substance capable of surrounding this connection. To put it simply, burning the reproduction after which the remaining ashes have become the source for recreating the original source of inspiration, i.e. the masks themselves. The process of burning is reflected in a video with all possible digital effects, and with scary, irritating, frightening music, as if the whole brothel would be on flames with its all of its characters and clientele... And the shift across the prism of time to the wild, black continent, to the creators of those magical masks, is not for the faint of heart. But everything ultimately comes to an end, the wind carries the ashes away, revealing a mask to us; and the chain is closed...silently.
The theme of birth and death of arts in the 20th century appears as one of the most important things. The painting, Girls of Avignon" of Picasso marked the birth of cubism. In the creation of this work, Picasso was inspired by archaic arts. 'Symbolically burning his "Girls of Avignon" we talked about the circle of life, about the death; return to archaic creativity, which once again inspires the birth of new arts.
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Seesaw, video art, 4’05’’, 2012
The Nomadic Instants Video 2012
Bayreuth (Lebanon) Sham Theatre
synopsis
This video is the story of three components: a man, a bear and a lattice.
Video starts with a small animation: a man and a bear on a seesaw…
Then the action moves to the zoo, where the creaking of seesaw continues the same game. Now, between people and the bears is appeared a lattice. People see the animals in captivity behind the bars. Also the animals see of people through the bars. Perhaps they think that people as well in captivity, only the cages they have more…
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Pince-nez of Beria, video art, 10'41’’ 2012
Art-residence in Hatlon region of Tajikistan
"Contemporary art : from concept to an artifact"
Supported by Regional Program for Culture and Art Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan 2012
synopsis
Beria was a minister in the government of Stalin. He had headed the Soviet nuclear project. Tabashar in Soviet times was a closed city was part of the draft, where was produced the filling of the first soviet nuclear bomb...
Tabashar basically was built by German prisoners; it is clearly seen on the city's architecture, which is reminiscent of the scenery of the feature film...
Local residents have claimed that Beria had been here many times.... These circumstances as Beria, nuclear project, the Germans prisoners, strange town among the mountains of Central Asia, as well as author's fantasy, that during one of his visits, Beria had lost his pens-nez and, we have managed to find it, served as the basis of this video art...
The video consists of four parts. At the beginning, the viewer's attention is focused on high traffic in Khujand.
Then the action moves to a small Tabashar where time is flowing quietly and slowly. Sometimes the time stops. The viewer appears in 1949. In the different parts of the city is flashing pens-nez of the manager of nuclear project and sometimes is sounding a tune on harmonica...
t the end of the video, pince-nez transformed into a huge circle in the center of which the viewer sees an explosion - a test of the first Soviet nuclear bomb on Novaya Zemlya...
Suleiman Sharifi, Ozar Sharifi
Valve, video art, 0'37'' 2009
Public art in Dushanbe 2009
CEC Arts Link in Central Asia, Bactria ACTED
synopsis
Monitor of advertising shows the water till horizon and a Valve above the water. The blue water contrasts with the dusty of town and promises to quench your thirst. The Valve begins to rotate, the water floods the city and all its inhabitants, and on the screen desert - the real essence of what was promised…