Ebecho Muslimova

INTERVIEW BY NATASHA STAGG PORTRAIT BY JAMES EMMERMAN EMERGING ARTIST EBECHO MUSLIMOVA CREATED FATEBE, a SHAMELESS AND SEXUALLY LIBERATED ALTER EGO. NATASHA STAGG — When did you first arrive in New York? EBECHO MUSLIMOVA — I got to New York in November of ’91, a month before my seventh birthday and a couple of months after the Soviet Union fell. But my mom came in ’89, and then there was the whole political shitshow. We finally got out in ’91 while there was a little opening. We were very lucky because afterward, the gates got shut again, and people were separated for way longer. NATASHA STAGG — And you came from where? EBECHO MUSLIMOVA — I was born in Dagestan, moved to St. Petersburg, and then came here. We came straight from JFK Airport to Inwood, uptown. That was the first apartment. And we came really late at night, so…