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Digital Art / Abstract
$175.00
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15.75" H x 11.81" W x 0.1" D x 0.1 lbs
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my experimental interpretation of Lillian Bassman
ironically, studying her work, I wanted to return to color
Bassman's restrained black-and-white aesthetic seems to me to be largely a product of the environment and the era in which she created, and I tried to imagine how this language could transform if she opened Photoshop and began "twisting curves"
in this series, the characters are candles in dresses
the plasticity of bodies that Lillian felt so subtly: necks, arms, curves - for me echoes the shape of church candles: graceful, elongated, sacred
at the same time, I thought a lot about the artist's inner freedom, her experience of taking a break from work largely rhymes with my own decision to abandon compromises in favor of honesty in her work
I've been thinking a lot about the creative energy of women: women making art, not war, improve the world, give life, decorate it
there is a lot of aggression in this color scheme, partly because of the reflections above, partly because of some inner feelings
this is the new me, who does not hide aggression, anger, but is inspired by it
Year Created
2026
Location
Almaty, KazakhstanColors
BlueCyanCrimsonBrownRedTeal
Materials & Tools
Digital Camera
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Diana Muminova
Kazakhstan
At the core of my practice is the relationship between memory and transformation. Memories change over time: some details become more vivid, others fade, and each return to the past, shaped by one's emotional state, alters it in subtle ways.
I work with the genre of still life because it allows me to speak about a person's inner world through the objects that inhabit domestic space. The home, historically associated with the experiences of women, has long been a place where they found ways to create using everyday objects and readily available materials. Continuing this tradition, I work with objects from my own home, drawing on everyday life as the material for my practice.
Each work begins with a still life composed of ordinary household objects. Within my compositions, these objects lose their practical function and become part of personal narratives. I then photograph the assembled scene, but the photograph is only the first stage of the process. Returning to it through collage, I dismantle and reconstruct the image, transforming both its form and its meaning. In doing so, the image follows the same path as memory: it transforms and is continuously reinterpreted.