ArtAsiaPacific Issue 149 (July/August 2026) Features Uzbek Filmmaker Saodat Ismailova
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ArtAsiaPacific's Issue 149 (July/August 2026) focuses on the interplay of memory, place, and technology in projection rooms. The cover feature highlights Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova, who discusses cinema's ability to summon other histories—mythical voices, spectral figures, and conversations between the living and the ancestral—in conversation with Centre Pompidou curator Marcella Lista, ahead of Ismailova's solo exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.
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Ismailova spoke with Marcella Lista, chief curator at Centre Pompidou, about cinema's capacity to summon other histories: mythical voices, spectral figures, conversations between the living and the ancestral.
ArtAsiaPacific's issue 149 (July/August 2026) attends to a certain quality of light particular to projection rooms, where memory, place, and technology—whether analog or digital—intertwine.
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