The Kadist Art Foundation has acquired the video installation Let Me Be Part of a Narrative (2012) by Taus Makhacheva. In Let Me Be Part of a Narrative Makhacheva juxtaposes an all-male event, the Dagestan Dog Fighting Championship, with a Soviet documen- tary on five-time world champion Dagestani wrestler Ali Aliev. Despite the apparent dissimilarity, the artist accurately detects one and the same impulse in both cases-the competitive spirit as a form of self-expression and a way of converting male violence into relatively peaceful forms.
Kadist Art Foundation is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection. In addition to being a collecting body, Kadist hosts artists residencies and produces exhibitions, publications, and public events. The first location was opened in Paris in 2006 by Vincent Worms and Sandra Terdjman, and a San Francisco, California location was added in 2011 in the Mission District.