Aziza Kadyri is a London-based Uzbek multidisciplinary artist working across textiles, sculpture, new technologies, and performance practices. Her approach is characterised by a fusion of collaboration and interdisciplinary methodologies that drive the creation of both physical and digital immersive experiences. An interest in participatory practices within local communities is central to her practice and led her to cofound Qizlar, a self-organised grassroots collective firmly grounded in principles of interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, as well as enacting social change. Themes of migration, displacement, social invisibility, identity, decolonisation and feminism provide a lens through which she examines societal dynamics and the experiences of women within Central Asia and diaspora. Interested in the potential of new media to enrich artistic research and socially engaged practices, she seeks to understand and harness the capabilities of these tools to facilitate deeper engagement and interaction within artistic, activist and cultural contexts. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China; Somerset House, London, UK; Cinematheque, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, US; Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
