Installation, 20 x 20 x 3 cm.
© Babi Badalov. Image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. S0437).
Badalov’s audiovisual project VOAIZOVA (War is Over), is based on his personal experience of linguistic inconveniences while travelling. In foreign countries, we often come across words written in the same alphabet as ours, but with different meaning, sound or pronunciation. The nomad life of an artist (or traveler, migrant, or refugee) does not only cause him or her a struggling adaptation period of cultural integration, but can primarily turn him or her into a prisoner of language. Badalov's projects play with this kind of linguistic notions in order to emphasize larger geo-political questions.
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> Babi Badalov.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. M HKA, Antwerp, 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Exhibition: LATT: Europe at Large #5 Vyacheslav Akhunov, Babi Badalov & Azat Sargsyan. M HKA, Antwerpen, 21 May 2010 - 04 July 2010.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Caucasian Debris.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Babi Badalov.