Aslan Goisum

Aslan Goisum (b. 1991 in Grozny, Chechnya) lives and works in Grozny and Amsterdam. Goisum develops a practice based on film, photography and sculpture which explores the formation of political, cultural, and ideological identities. Shaped by the experience of war, nomadism, diaspora and displacement as a Chechnyan, his work interpolates the facade of progress and commerce that strives to conceal enduring devastation. Juxtaposing monumental visuals with fragmented speech and language, he instrumentalises failure and contradiction as commentary on silenced and overwritten histories.