Saodat Ismailova

This exhibition unfolds as a two-channel film installation. Visitors are invited to engage directly with the complex history of Sulaiman-Too Mountain’s sacred rituals, political imposition, and cultural transformation. As We Fade speaks to how places of worship, reunion, community, and heritage are adapted, overwritten, taken, or reclaimed over time.

In the film As We Fade, Ismailova traces the layered story of Sulaiman-Too Mountain, Central Asia’s oldest pilgrimage site, named after the Arabic legend that the prophet Sulaiman rested there. Alongside the film, the exhibition features “The Mountain Our Bodies Emptied,” a reduced-scale resin cast based on LiDAR scans, a technology that uses laser light to create precise three-dimensional models of surfaces, of Tamchi Tomar Cave.

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