David Monteleone: Spasibo

"Thank you". A simple expression, rarely posed as a question. But the viewer of David Monteleone’s exhibition Spasibo (Thank you) should be wary. For a keener eye and sharper ear are needed where a lens, seemingly clear, focuses on the twisted identity of Chechnya.

It is a country that drags with it a heap of tattered stereotypes, war-torn ideas of what constitutes a place and those who live in it. For many in the West,...