Diana Muminova (b. 1997, Shymkent, Kazakhstan) is a visual artist working across photography, collage, and mixed media. She returned to image-making in 2021 after completing a degree in public relations and advertising communications, initially working in commercial product photography. This led her to contemporary still life, which became the foundation of her artistic practice. Working with everyday objects, Diana Muminova creates and photographs still lifes before transforming the images through collage. Her practice explores memory and metamorphosis, examining how memories shift over time and how ordinary objects can hold personal stories. Through fragmentation, reassembly, and the physical manipulation of paper, she gives form to emotional experience and the changing nature of memory.
recently, I came across the idea that the adult we become often turns out to be an image that we ourselves lacked in…
my project is about a moment of personal crisis, when the previous ways of looking at the world no longer work, and the…
my project came from a simple everyday observation…
in this project, I compared two cities: Asia and Europe, big and small, proximity to water and distance from it, a…
The series was prompted by the news of plans to develop Kok-Zhailau, a place that has become a symbol and source of…
if flowers no longer bloom on your withered branches, make them yourself
the day is like a torn-out piece of paper, crumpled up and thrown into the trash can of a pool of memory, followed by…
I wanted to translate an instrument into the physical plane, adding hands and materiality. A baking dish shattered in…
This project is rooted in my experience of growing up in a family where care and violence could exist side by side. I…
Is biting aggression or a condition of life?…
The creation of visual works is tied to experiences, feelings, and states I have already lived through. Sometimes I…
"the place that doesn’t exist" explores the possibility of belonging to a place that exists only in memory and…
"the Little Mermaid from Shymkent"…
A dialogue with David Lynch’s artistic method, translated into photography language. I was interested not in his…
My experimental interpretation of Lillian Bassman’s work, translating her restrained black-and-white language into both…