ANEL ALPYSBAYEVA

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UCLA Art School Expansion

 Thick-Skinned

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum

Caravanserai

A View From The Upside Down
ART

Untitled

A Common Burn

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DESIGN

Soap Dish

The Urban Dead

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Peri / Jeztırnaq



Untitled (2024).

        This Independent Study project was redirected in response to police and state violence perpetrated by UCLA Administration towards its students, the United States towards activists advocating for Palestine’s liberation, and the state of Israel towards Palestinian people. Due to the lack of support and activism shown by the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design department, the students of AUD, like me, felt annihilated and silenced.

This project, led by Anel Alpysbayeva and Dyson Salleh, is an effort to continuously remind AUD community and beyond that Palestinian resilience is ever present even when business is expected to be ran as usual.




The visual symbols of keffiyeh scarf are meant to be obscure enough to pass the department’s unspoken rules of censorship, but clear enough to be linked to Palestinian liberation as many Palestinians and student activists have been wearing keffiyeh to symbolize their resistance to Israeli apartheid.


The active action of walking through the wall with a chiffon fabric, draping all the way down to the floor, helps the participants to notice the entrance to Perloff Hall and be reminded of what’s been going on in this campus: how police officers were freely walking through the same entrance to get around campus to brutalize students.
A Common Burn (2023).

         A Common Burn is a sculptural manifestation of archiving and tracing the lineage of personal and collective artifacts. In this work, the active remembrance of pressings and rough outlines of what-once-was comes from personal relationship with Nel's Kazakh background. By burning, pressing, probing into the essence of what makes a culture and stripping it into its core visual motifs, the work intertwines these feelings with some artifacts from her personal life.

How can one enclose the essence within the formal boundaries of archival preservation that usually come in the form of a book?





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