MAYANA NASYBULLOVA

"Phase: Transition" is a study of corporeality, a critical exploration of social and biological notions of the body, its psycho-physical boundaries, and its representation in the cultural field. The project consists of interwoven artistic mediums: a graphic series, a film, casts, and sonified sculptures. At its core, the project focuses on seeking possibilities to liberate the body from traumas, internal conflicts, and processes of objectification.

The starting point of the "Phase: Transition" project is the film "REMOVAL," which will be presented to the public for the first time. It is the result of a collaboration with cinematographer Maria Berezhnaya and Siberian musicians Egor Klochikhin and Dyad and the Sleepers Club. The three-part film metaphorically narrates an attempt to conform to conventional standards of attractiveness. The exposition will be complemented by a series of plaster casts featuring body fragments. The models for the project were residents of Novosibirsk, whom the artist invited to participate during the exhibition’s preparation.

"In Mayana Nasybullova’s new project, several artistic approaches converge, which she has been systematically developing over the past few years. As a sculptor, she continues to work with her fundamental material — plaster, but she also ventures into an entirely new dimension of sound with sonified objects created from industrial waste and synthetic materials. The boundary of one’s own body in Mayana’s projects becomes a subject of questioning and analysis (if not doubt), and the crossing of bodily boundaries is expressed through transgression towards her own artistic practice. It is in this transition from one mode of perception to another, from external to internal, through dark imagery and pain, that the viewer finds themselves. The power of the therapeutic gesture becomes accessible to anyone who is capable of self-acceptance and moving into the next phase," — Petr Zherebtsov, curator of CC19.