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Originally from the Caucasus, I grew up between Moscow and Istanbul. My life has been shaped by movement across continents, having lived and worked in Melbourne, Buenos Aires and Budapest, and I am currently based between Barcelona and Amsterdam.
My projects explore queer identity, cultural taboos, sexuality, and socio-political tension, often drawing from experiences and histories rooted in the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, Anatolia, and other regions where questions of gender and sexuality remain deeply contested. Working across photography, film, and performance, I blend cinematic language with photography to construct and read images. I draw on the visual and narrative languages of Sergey Paradjanov, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Yuri Ilyenko, whose work continues to shape my artistic approach.
Photography is my primary form of expression because it captures moments, memory, and history in detail, and allows even staged scenes to live again, holding a gaze that lingers.
I try to build scenes where reality and fiction collapse into one another, using a cinematic and performative language to control the image while leaving its meaning unsettled. Culture and tradition are not references but material. I work through them, using research and historical narratives to shift, distort, and question what is inherited.
