London.- Calvert 22 is proud to present “Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia”, on view from September 14th through Novermber 13th. “Between Heaven and Earth” is a ground-breaking and timely exhibition which will bring to UK audiences a strong sense of the overlooked, yet exceptionally vibrant contemporary art that is being made in the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as in Afghanistan and Mongolia. The persistent mythology of the Silk Road, as well as the ‘Great Game’ played out between the British and Russian Empires in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has dominated the Western view of these mysterious lands. More recently, however, these rich cultural and physical landscapes have been dismissed in the West as the ‘Stans’ and downgraded to theatres of environmental degradation, religious conflict and war. The result of such a reductive approach, is a perception radically different from the truth: one that is devoid of nuance and processed into inhuman clichés of a “Borat” style, post-Soviet wasteland. “Between Heaven and Earth” depicts a radically different ‘landscape’.