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.”

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

Special thanks: Qizlar Collective, Mouse Green, Loong Wei Ding, Jamie Melrose, Shirin Jalilova, Anastasia Novikova, eastcontemporary Milan, Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry