AZIZA KADYRI

Multidisciplinary artist

DON'T MISS THE CUE

2024

The Uzbekistan National Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale of Art, commissioned by the Uzbekistan Arts and Culture Development Foundation and curated by the Centre for Contemporary Art Tashkent.


9 MOONS

2023

A project reflecting upon the untold herstories of women in Central Asia—stories that unveil struggles with colonialism, ideology and patriarchal ways in what is now Uzbekistan.


SELF-EXOTICISATION ARCHIVES

AI Suzani series, 2023-

An ongoing series exploring the relationship between a Central Asian artist, their struggle with identity, and biases in publicly available AI networks.


CINÉ MOON MOBILE

2023

A collaboration with the Kim Bode on a transforming art installation for the video festival D’EST#Cycle 2: Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires.

9 MOONS: IMAGINED ARCHIVES

Work in Progress, 2023-

A digital series consisting of symbolic representations of imagined memories, dreamt up through conversations with AI and transformed into 3D objects ‘taken out of’ the world of 9 Moons.

DE-CANON

2021-

A long-term research project which includes a series of performance-based art workshops for Central Asian women that have experienced migration.

KADYROVA STREET

2020

A lockdown video work that explores the stereotypes young Central Asians encounter on daily basis by emphasising the complexity of my personal relationships with Moscow and Tashkent

FITTINGS

2020

A one-woman show exposing the idiosyncrasies of a migrant identity while also playing with exaggerated theatrical clichés.