Kabira Alieva - Azerbaijan - London
Site: http://www.kabira.mysite.com/
Artist Statement:
“My work often weaves the real and the imagined, with waking dreams, childhood adventures and half-remembered episodes intruding into the present. As well as merging my memories, my work merges different media.
Nostalgia for Baku, my birth place, infiltrates a lot of my work, strengthening my identity as an Azerbaijani contemporary artist and sharing my roots and culture with the rest of the world. My emerging interest in photography explores the juxtaposition between the real and concrete with the murky depths of the subconscious: the dreamy fairy-tale landscapes which might be real, or might only be in a parallel dimension. The natural world is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to me and is slowly setting the stage for where some of my work may be heading. What makes the dichotomy between the tangible and the ethereal more poignant is probably my background as a life scientist. My 3D pieces show the importance of understanding the language of biological form – amorphorous sculptures that attempt to highlight the inescapable fact of being – that each entity we see forms neither part of the past, nor the future.
As the rest of my work, my drawings and paintings create settings or route-maps that usually allow the viewer to complete my thoughts and stories.”
Kabira Alieva
