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visual artist/ cultural programmer based in Tashkent/New York
@davracollective program & fundraising director
@magnumfoundation fellow

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We’re excited to announce that we received an LMCC 2026 Manhattan Arts Grant! 🎉✨

@lmcc’s Manhattan Arts Grants funds hundreds of Manhattan-based artists, arts groups, and community-focused organizations for the public presentation of arts activities in every neighborhood from Inwood to The Battery.

This grant will support a collaborative project between @tkhasanovaa, @zuma.mir and @davracollective, which explores the transatlantic extractivist legacies of cotton production through the questions of improvisation, sound and environment.

Support for Manhattan Arts Grants provided by @nyscouncilonthearts, @nyculture, @umez_dc and @howardgilmanfoundation.

Stay tuned for more!

#LMCC #ManhattanArtsGrants #lmccgrantee by @zuma.mir

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📷 Zumrad Mirzalieva (@zuma.mir) uses photography to examine how gender shapes access to public space, challenging the invisible boundaries that define who belongs where.

Her ongoing series, Sartaroshxona (the Uzbek word for “barbershop”), takes viewers inside traditionally male-only spaces in Uzbekistan. By entering these environments as a woman, Mirzalieva questions long-established gender norms while drawing thoughtful parallels between men’s barbershops and women’s beauty salons, both of which serve as vital spaces for community. Through this comparison, Mirzalieva challenges rigid ideas of gender while highlighting the shared human need for belonging.

As traditional Uzbek barbershops disappear under the influence of globalisation and increasingly standardised Western aesthetics, Sartaroshxona also becomes an important act of cultural preservation. Mirzalieva’s work reminds us that documenting a place is never only about architecture or tradition; it is also about questioning who has the freedom to enter, who gets to tell its stories and whose perspective has historically been left outside the frame. Ultimately, the project challenges the entrenched gender dichotomy that shapes everyday life in Uzbekistan.

#zumradmirzalieva #sartaroshxona #documentaryphotography #genderequality #gendernorms taken in Uzbekistan by @zuma.mir

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through sands and dreams at the 14th annual Amman Image Festival @imagefestivalamman

thank you @magnumfoundation, our wonderful mentors (@newshatavakolian, @nandita.raman and @ericgottesman) and @ameenakaseem💓

image credits: Nadia Bseiso @nadiabseiso by @zuma.mir

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Today we are wrapping up our 2026 ArtsLink Fellows and hosts spotlights with Zumrad Mirzalieva who has started her Fellowship collaboration with Tamara Khasanova.

Zumrad is a visual artist, researcher and cultural programmer working with photography and moving image. @zuma.mir research explores themes of agency, solidarity, ecology and extraction. She is one of the Directors of the Davra research group founded by artist and 2007 and 2018 ArtsLink Fellow Saodat Ismailova, a recent resident at Fabrica Research Centre, Delfina Foundation and a Magnum Foundations Fellow. Zumrad’s debut short film “Autonomy” was screened at documenta fifteen and the GoEast film festival symposium in Wiesbaden.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, and originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Tamara is an independent curator, researcher, and writer. Tamara's research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies, and colonial histories. She was a 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP). @tkhasanovaa has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others.

We wish them a fruitful Fellowship!

#ArtsLinkFellowships2026 taken in New York, USA by @zuma.mir

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Excited to share the second half of our research trip with @majafowkes and @reuben.fowkes from @sava.uea. Nothing compares to being out in the field together and learning from the landscapes, infrastructures and shared conversations.

This research lab was made possible through the Connections Through Culture grant from @uzbritish and opened up new directions for our long-term research on the Syr Darya river. Can’t wait to share more! by @zuma.mir

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Days 1-3 of the Socialist Anthropocene in Uzbekistan program were spent exploring the different, but equally fascinating spaces and phenomena in Tashkent and its surrounding areas.
Thank you to our wonderful mentors @majafowkes and @reuben.fowkes from @sava.uea and @uzbritish for making this possible! by @zuma.mir

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can’t think of a place I love more

@davracollective Syr labo by @zuma.mir

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Приглашаем вас на премьеру нового фильма Саодат Исмаиловой Swan Lake [Лебединое Озеро] (2025), после которой состоится лекция Майи и Рубена Фоукс «Последствия утопии: социалистический антропоцен в современном искусстве».

17 апреля, 19:00 в @moc__org
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Sizni Saodat Ismailovaning Swan Lake [Oqqush Ko’li](2025) filmining O‘zbekistondagi premyerasiga taklif qilamiz. Namoyishdan so‘ng Maja va Reuben Fowkes “Utopiyaning keyingi hayotlari: zamonaviy san’atda sotsialistik antropotsen” mavzusida ma’ruza o‘tkazadi.

17 aprel, 19:00 @moc__org by @zuma.mir

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Screening and Lecture | Tricontinental Imaginaries at the Tashkent Film Festival with Zumrad Mirzalieva
TOMORROW Wednesday March 26, 2026 at 7 PM

On the occasion of Saodat Ismailova’s (@saodat.ismailova) exhibition, Amanat, please join us for a lecture and the premiere screening of a new film by Zumrad Mirzalieva (@zuma.mir), one of Ismailova’s frequent collaborators. Building on Mirzalieva’s research into the Tashkent Film Festival of Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, this lecture examines a space imagined as a South–South collaboration yet shaped by Soviet geopolitical agendas. Drawing from Mirzalieva’s short film, Tashkent 58-88 (2026), and archival fragments—including footage, newsreels, letters and the festival’s programming logic—she explores how anti-imperial images circulated through an imperial system and what these tensions reveal about broader solidarity movements. In doing so, Mirzalieva attempts to develop a critical methodology for reading this archive and its consequences within contemporary cultural politics.

RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

#swissinstitute #zumradmirzalieva #saodatismailova A black and white photo of group of people standing in front of a large sign. Text overlaid states, "Screening and Lecture: Tricontinental Imaginaries at the Tashkent Film Festival with Zumrad Mirzalieva". by @zuma.mir

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Ushbu loyiha biz jamoa sifatida olib borayotgan kengroq tadqiqotning bir qismidir. Bu Sirdaryo daryosiga bag‘ishlangan uzoq muddatli, immersiv ishdir.

Sirdaryo Markaziy Osiyodagi ikki asosiy daryodan biridir. Qirg‘iziston, Tojikiston, O‘zbekiston va Qozog‘iston hududlaridan oqib o‘tib, u mintaqaning qishloq xo‘jaligi, landshaftlari, ekotizimlari, biologik xilma-xilligi, siyosati va madaniy hayotini shakllantirgan hamda XX asrdagi ekologik o‘zgarishlarda muhim rol o‘ynagan.

Sirdaryoga bag‘ishlangan yaqinlashib kelayotgan nashrimiz dala tadqiqotlari, yangi badiiy ishlar, arxiv materiallari, shuningdek tadqiqotchilar va rassomlarning mulohazalarini birlashtiradi. Mayya va Ruben Fouks bilan ushbu kontekstda dastur o‘tkazish bizga bilimni sekin, hamkorlikda va fanlararo yondashuv asosida shakllantirish imkonini beradi.

Cover: Max Alpert, photographer. Bol’shoi Ferganskii kanal, [1940]. Davis Center Collection, Harvard Library. by @zuma.mir

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I’ll be hosting Open Hours at @magnumfoundation on March 19, 5–8 PM, to speak about my work in the Enduring Ecologies exhibition and to honor the people and landscapes of Moynaq who, through it all, continue to imagine their futures beyond extraction.

Friends in New York, please join me. RSVP via MF’s website. by @zuma.mir

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Biz Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art muassislari Maja va Reuben Fowkes bilan hamkorligimizni e’lon qilishdan xursandmiz. Ular tomonidan olib borilayotgan “Sotsialistik Antropotsen” tadqiqoti natijalarini O‘zbekistonga olib kelish niyatidamiz.

@uzbritish va ularning Connection Through Culture dasturi ko‘magi bilan, joriy yilning aprel oyida DAVRA O‘zbekistonda besh kunlik tadqiqot intensivini tashkil etadi. Unda shuro davrining ekologik va infratuzilmaviy “keyingi hayoti” (afterlives) o‘rganiladi.

Taklif etilgan kichik guruh ishtirokchilari bilan birga, biz Shuro davridagi ekologik muhandislik, yer boyliklarini qazib olish va ekologik inqiroz ta’sirida shakllangan bir nechta joylarga safar qilamiz.

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Мы рады объявить о нашем предстоящем сотрудничестве с соучредителями Института современного искусства Translocal, Маей и Рубеном Фоуксами, чтобы поделиться результатами их исследований по социалистическому антропоцену в Узбекистан.

Благодаря поддержке @uzbritish и их программы «Connection Through Culture», в апреле этого года DAVRA проведет в Узбекистане пятидневный исследовательский интенсив, посвященный изучению экологических и инфраструктурных последствий социализма. Вместе с небольшой группой приглашенных участников мы посетим несколько мест, сформированных в результате советской экологической инженерии, добычи ресурсов и экологического коллапса. by @zuma.mir

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