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The Road to Oxiana Station II: Istanbul 2008

12 min video

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Henie-Onstad Art Centre 2008

The video consists of still images and texsts organized in ten chapters. The texts are fabulating around the images, which originates from different sourses: private photos from a visit to Istanbul, pictures form books and the internet. The work conserns reflections on seductive images, geography and memory. It has a diffuse referance to events that took place in the 50s.

Commission Henie-Onstad Centre Procuced with support from the Norwegian Arts Counsil

Composer Gaute Tønder Viola Masha Tønder

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