METAMORPHOSIS | 2023

The “Metamorphosis” series was inspired by an experience that Nagimova had in her home village in Tatarstan. Following a family tradition of paying respects to the local cemetery before leaving, Nagimova visited the graves there with her aunt Minglejikhan. When the elderly woman, wrapped in warm woolen clothing and a white headscarf, said a Muslim prayer, the butterflies sat on her. She later explained that these were the souls of the deceased. The artist thus understood prayer as a multidimensional practice of knowledge, feeling and understanding, in which time, people, events and love exist in an alternative dimension and come together, if only for a moment.

The familiar flat shape of the felt with the colored patterns folds into different shapes and thus symbolizes the transformation of people during life and after life.

Metamorphosis

Felt, 64 × 64 cm, 2023

Our ways will never cross

Felt, 83 x 83 cm, 2023

Two moons

Felt, 82 x 111 cm, 2022

Four heavens

Felt, 98 x 100 cm, 2023