Ikebana-street / Perugia
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Ikebana-street / Perugia
Limited Edition of undefined
Mixed Media / Interdisciplinary
$350.00
Currently Available for Sale: 5
15.75" H x 11.81" W x 0.1" D x 0.1 lbs
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Description

I woke up thinking, “why not make a still life out of street photography?”

before I became seriously interested in still life, the camera was a constant companion on all kinds of trips

I loved shooting strange houses, streets, trees, and randomly catching urban characters in their natural habitat, and this passion left its mark in the form of gigabytes of archives, which you perceive in a completely different way from the current time point

as a story, as a chain of decisions, as a development, and sometimes you are amazed that an inexperienced gaze caught something that I can no longer do

purity, naivety and the beauty of an open world, undefiled by ideas about “how to do it”

in this project, I compared two cities: Asia and Europe, big and small, proximity to water and distance from it, a restrained landscape and a more relaxed, diverse one, two points of light that, most likely, no one had connected before, but for me they are in a logical series of places that have left an imprint inside

all the details covered by the scope are printed, cut out, and decomposed into urban ikebana

Year Created
2026
Location
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Colors
YellowMagentaGreen
Materials & Tools
PaperDigital CameraGlue
Search Terms
ArtCollageAdultUrbanArchitecture
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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.