AES+F Digital Project Challenges Perceptions Of Islam In Western Society

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RUSSIA---The Russian based photo-conceptualist group AES made up of artists Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, and Evgeny Svyatsky began the Islamic project as an installation and performance with interactive communication with public purchasing souvenirs, filling questionnaire concerning their opinions about Future. It works as a kind of social psychoanalysis – visualisation of fears of Western society about Islam. In 1996, they launched "Travel Agency to the Future: Islamic Project" - a conceptual art piece that not only catapulted the artist collective to prominence but gained in controversy after 9/11. Images of famous landmarks and tourist destinations were digitally altered to look as if taken over by a radical form of Islamic culture. [link]