Aylin Alakbarli is a New York based interdisciplinary designer, artist and animator. She holds an MFA degree in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art.
In the 20th century alone, the Azerbaijani alphabet has changed 4 times. Our language has gone through suppression and fragmentation through colonization and assimilation. After all, it’s the first thing to take away when you want to erase a culture. My video installation depicts metaphorical mechanisms through which a language can be dismantled.