"Recently The Art Institute of Chicago commissioned Kasmalieva and Djumaliev to create a work specifically about the economy and culture of the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that connects East and West. Also included in the exhibition is one of their better-known works, Trans-Siberian Amazons (2004), which appeared in the first Central Asia pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale. This work has been streamlined into a three-channel video installation. Not content with simply providing tourist snapshots or documentary footage, Kasmalieva and Djumaliev employ various filmic techniques in a subtle way to produce an artful vision of the real. "
---Jason Foumberg, Frieze, April 2007
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Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djuamliev (2008)
Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev (2006)
Deirdre Tynan, EurasiaNet, April 11, 2008
Emily Newman, Artforum, December, 2007
Art Margins, Susan Snodgras, 2007
Frieze Magazine, Jason Foumberg, 2007
Chicago Tribune, Alan G. Artner, February 15, 2007
Artforum, Elena Sorokina, October 2006
