Eternal love
Felt, 210 x 210 cm, 2024
The praying
Felt, 150 x 160 cm, 2025
The prayers | 2024
The series "The prayers" is the continuation of the "Metamorphosis | 2023". On the white prayer rug made of felt, in the place where the gaze is usually directed during prayer and the head touches, there is a small folded felt that resembles a butterfly or an envelope. The artist sees prayer as something light and mobile and links herself again to the experience in the cemetery with her aunt and deals with the questions: what is a prayer? What worlds and times does it connect? And how we want to find the purity and sincerity of a child within ourselves during prayer, so that our wishes can have the lightness of a butterfly.
The prayer
Felt, 85 x 150 cm, 2024
The little prayers
Felt, 2024
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, 93 x 93 cm, 2023
Our ways will never cross
Felt, 83 x 83 cm, 2023
Four heavens
Felt, 98 x 100 cm, 2023
Two moons
Felt, 82 x 111 cm, 2022
BAKIY | 2022
Felt, 180 x 220 cm
Light and heavy, silent and loud. A butterfly flying up and a waterfall flowing down.
For this installation i used the wool from my performance at Documenta 15 in Kassel. Since ancient times, the butterfly has symbolized immortality, rebirth and transformation. The mountain of wool from the performance, flowing into a felt river and transformed into a butterfly, is a metamorphosis and a continuation of the practice started with Davra collective.
THE LONG SONG | 2020
Felt, 36 m
A “felt river” installation composed of the Tatar words spoken by my father and me.
Photos: Michail Stamm
Yool (The Way )
Felt, 208 x 114 cm, 2020
Buran
Filz, 90 x 90 cm, 2017