V–A–C Sreda online magazine presents a special issue timed to coincide with the Split Together, Merged Apart exhibition, which is taking place at GES-2 House of Culture from April 3 to September 28, 2025. The exhibition explores the relationship between modernism and archaeology and centres on the history of the Khorezm Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition of 1937–1991.
In this episode, we discuss the key ideas of the exhibition. How does the study of the past relate to the future? What is Koy-Krylgan-kala? And what are the consequences of excavations?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev discussed these and other questions with Yaroslav Aleshin, curator of exhibition projects and of the Urban Communities programme at GES-2 House of Culture.