AZIZA KADYRI
Multidisciplinary Artist
Cut From The Same Cloth
Bukhara Biennial commission
05/09/2025 - 20/11/2025
Aziza Kadyri's Cut From The Same Cloth (2024-2025) unfolds in two parts, drawing from her grandfather’s 1969 journey to study cotton-refining machinery in the Southern US as a Soviet Uzbek researcher. Blending oral history, archival imagery, her grandfather’s patent blueprints, and AI-generated motifs based on Central Asian textiles, the work explores the entangled histories of industry, ecology, and diaspora.
In collaboration with Nurata-born master embroiderer Yulduz Mukhiddinova, the first part bridges traditional Uzbek Suzani embroidery with the mechanical forms of cotton gins, creating textile-metal hybrids that echo both heritage and industrial change.
The second part, developed with artist Mathieu Bissonnette, transforms the research around her grandfather’s archive into a multisensory, interactive experience. Viewers navigate a dreamlike space shaped by abstracted river forms, soundscapes, and animation responding to movement and sound.
Kadyri’s work captures the tensions between handcraft and mechanisation, personal memory and systemic change. In the words of the artist, “My work engages in critical fabulation: reimagining fragmented pasts, reclaiming forgotten voices... inviting audiences to reconnect with histories disrupted by migration and industry.”
Photography by Adrien Dirand and Aziza Kadyri
Commissioner: ACDF and Gayane Umerova
Curator: Diana Campbell
Co-author (suzani embroidery): Yulduz Mukhiddinova
Co-author (digital experience): Mathieu Bissonnette
Project Producer: Asli Samadova
Assistant Producer: Malika Anvarova
Architecture specialist: Mayis Maksudov
Textile specialist: Oksana Novikova
Metal sculptor: Pavel Makarov
Installation production lead: Feruz Oynazarov
Installation production team: City Size
Hand-dyeing specialist: Dilfuza Zoitova
Suzani embroiderers in Nurata: Muhabbat Abdullaeva, Nuriniso Alikulova, Munisa Alikulova, Dilafruz Alikulova, Sanobar Achilova, Halima Bekmurodova, Fotima Ikromova, Ruzigul Madatova, Zilola Mardieva, Muxtaram Sharipova, Zulayho Usmonova, Mohira Yusupova, Shohida Jabborova
Sewists: Feruza Rakhmatova, Munisa Rakhmatova, Dilafruz Djuraeva, Firangiz Fayzieva, Bekjon Rakhmatov, Dilrabo Issakova
AVL specialist: Drika Matheus
AVL production leads: Khurshid Akhmedjanov, Jonibek Sharapov, Xojiakbar Uralov
Sound designer: Fanis Sakellariou
Voice talent: Malika Atajanova, Aziza Kadyri, Dmitriy Kasatkin, Sanjar Sattorov
Voice recording engineer: Anvar Fayzullaev
Translators: Saidakhon Azimova, Jasmina Rakhmonova
Physical computing specialist: Antoine Sarrazin
3D generalists: Claudio Coutinho, Damian Winnichenko
Engineering Support: Loong Wei Ding
Sound engineering support: Alessio Mellina
Songwriter: Jamie Melrose
Special thanks: Qizlar Collective, Mouse Green, Shirin Jalilova, Anastasia Novikova, eastcontemporary Milan, Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry
