Author: ZOYA

Open Skies Mouth / Ashyk Aspan Auyzy

Installation, 35x40x40 cm, mixed media, 2019 Cattle requisitioning by the Soviet authorities destroyed the basis of life of peasants and nomads. According to historian Kaidar Aldazhumanov’s research, in…

Her Fault

ceramics, glazing. 34Х28Х28 сm. 2018 This parody of Attic vase painting reflects the history of Women from the times of ancient Greece: it’s allways her fault. Feat. Marshall…

Disappearing Peninsula / Southern Siberia

Minidioramas, mixed media, 24х15х33см, 2018 Crimea is a warm memory dragged into the darkness of political intricacies. Being an artist from Kazakhstan and doing a project about Crimea in…

Evermust

Object, 75х45х40cm., 2017 The punching bag in the form of a woman’s torso is a portrait of female gender socialization and a social climate in which violence is…

Colonization of Marx

object: a colony of ants (messor structor), poppy seeds, gypsum, equipment, plaster, acrylic, glass, water. 40Х30X3 см. 2017 Gypsum used for constructing artificial ant houses was also a…

Cut

Applicative objects of readymades, hand sewing, filler. 2016-2017 The form of peoples’ coexistence called state presupposes the existence of borders, while international contacts always question the current state…

PLAYINGTHEWOMAN

Solo exhibition, 2017. 22.06.2017 – 26.07.2017 Esentai gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Curator – Valeriya Ibrayeva The exhibition includes paintings (borsch on starched sheets), photo panel, work “You are supposed…

“AIDALA | museum of modern art | no entry”

Aidala means a deserted place; a boundless steppe; an uninhabited space; a forsaken, abandoned area. (Kazakh-Russian dictionary) There are various kinds of museums in Almaty, but there is…

Slogans. Objects from the project “Mars signs”

“been colinizing on and on, but have never colonized trough” (based on a russian tongue twister ) “am I a trembling colonizer, or have I the right?” print on…

Red triptych. From “In a relation to a Tree” series

Macondo may disappear, but it cannot change. A monument to the words of the Minister of Culture.

An installation tied to a tree, left to be eaten by ants (as well as by birds and squirrels). Experiment. Duration: 1 month Materials: Sugar, eggs, honey, water,…

deFLOORation project

Installations floor rags,bucket. 2,5x2x2m. Human sexual experiences are detached from the original biological purposes. However,  it is the function of procreation that is taken as a basis of…

YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE A GIRL

“You are supposed to be a girl” — these are the three words every woman is constantly hearing while she is growing up. Time after time, the repetitions…

TXT

Poetry publications (in Russian): around 11755 Golocene in Space and Writing: An Anthropocene Study This poem in F-writing zine Daktil №1 Under one cover : queer poetry collection polutona  №1…

When the wings are cutting

Digital collages, triptych, 2015 Poetic metaphor coming from a political leader, especially a metaphor that departs from stubborn facts, generates a lot of additional meanings. Comparing the economic…

PRECARIOUS SYMBIOSIS

Installation on a tree, 2015. Epoxy resin. Colonies of obviously man-made, but inanimate structures on a natural body-carrier may seem ornamental, but rather they resemble a colony of…

Orchestra of melting glaciers

Installation: sensors, speakers, sounds «GLACIER MUSIC» project The project consists of an interactive sound and video installation. It encourages the visitor to actively participate in the project. Such…