New Uzbekistan
New Uzbekistan is a mosaic series of staged and documentary scenes from Uzbekistan. At the intersection of fiction and documentary, I construct my own image of the country — a portrait of Uzbekistan’s layered identity. The title references the ideological slogan “Yangi O‘zbekiston” (“New Uzbekistan”), which has been central to the current government's narrative of national renewal and reform. Although widely promoted, New Uzbekistan remains ambiguous and vague in practice — I’m not even sure it exists. Through this project, I offer my own version of a portrait of Uzbekistan — at times new, at times old.