MEHRAN CONTEMPORARY IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE ADDITION OF MUNISA KHOLKHUJAEVA TO ITS ROSTER OF ARTISTS.
Munisa Kholkhujaeva multidisciplinary visual artist was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1997. In her practice mostly likes using simple graphics on paper, colored pens, and embroidery on traditional textiles in her interpretation and patchwork. She inspires by her native region where she was born, exploring her identity, nature, essential connections with the environment, and the subtlespiritual connections of living beings. Her significant debut textile work “ NAFAS ‘’ and series of illustrations “BOG’” for Fanzine was prepared for the National Pavilion of Uzbekistan in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020. She presented her textile-based amulet-creating performance “TUMOR” in dOCUMENTA 15 as a part of the “DAVRA” collective initiated and involved by Saodat Ismailova.