A Sense of History ; the Countdown Is Underway Until the Artes Mundi 4 Exhibition Opens in Cardiff. In the First of Our Series of Regular Profiles of the Shortlisted Artists, the Award's Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Tessa Jackson, Looks at the Work of Duo Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev

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KYRGYZSTAN - where is that, you might well ask? It is surprising how many places in the world we still don't know much about, and if asked, could not pinpoint on a map.

Perhaps that is not surprising when you consider that 20 years ago, it did not exist as a separate country, but was an autonomous region of the USSR.

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A Sense of History ; the Countdown Is Underway Until the Artes Mundi 4 Exhibition Opens in Cardiff. In the First of Our Series of Regular Profiles of the Shortlisted Artists, the Award's Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Tessa Jackson, Looks at the Work of Duo Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev

In 1991, along with its neighbours, it suddenly became one of the Central Asian Republics and started life as an independent country.

To the immediate west of China, north of Afghanistan, but separated from this war torn land by Tajikistan, K...

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