Introduction
The Caspian Sea has historically been a difficult entity to define. An "inland sea" and not a lake by dint of its size alone, the Caspain often calls for its own defintion of basic descriptive terms because there are so few other places like it.
We have chosen to focus on this body of water as a place defined by movement that has, over time, fostered remarkable patterns of cooperation and transnational participation despite the wealth in oil and natural gas beneath its sea floors.
We ask in this exhibition, how have the concepts of mobility emerged in various ways as the Caspian Sea has been mapped, described, shared and divided over time?