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"shaharstad" is a audiovisual work on migration, cities, homesickness, and the non-linearity of space. It is an attempt at the impossible task of reconciling the structures of familiar and unfamiliar space, with their multi-layered approaches to terrain and city, distance and area, as well as the possibility of movement. Informed by the unconscious attempt at drawing parallels and applying long-learned practices from one urban space to another, it employs online maps and recordings reminiscent of home and away to document the duplicate perception in a migrant's traversal of urban space. First displayed as "cityspace" at Ilgeri Art exhibition in Bishkek in 2022, curated by Suinbike Suleimenova.