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The isolated people of Nagorno-Karabakh are living in a time vacuum since the cease fire of 1994. They live in a de facto independent country, but remain unrecognized as such by the international community. This area is still subject of an unresolved and long forgotten conflict which is the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then what does national identity mean in a country that doesn`t exist? What are the concepts to construct such an identity? Isn`t a nation an artificial construction after all? And how is the landscape an object of identification, to them, and to us, the viewer?

Pieter Geenen (°1979) lives and works in Brussels. After his Master of Fine Arts degree in photography he completed the international postgraduate program Transmedia at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design Brussels. His audiovisual work has been presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Images Festival Toronto, DocLisboa, EXiS Seoul, FID Marseille, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou-Metz, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, La Capella Barcelona, FRAC Basse-Normandie and Médiathèque FMAC Geneva amongst others. In 2007 he received the `Input/Output Art Prize` for emerging artists and in 2011 he was awarded the first prize `Fondation Henri Servais` from the Art`Contest Art Prize in Belgium. Together with Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, and Meggy Rustamova he`s a founding member of Messidor, a platform for reflection on and the production and distribution of moving image.