Exhibition ‘Contested Cosmos: Women, Myth, and Technology across Central Asia’

Contested Cosmos: Women, Myth, and Technology across Central Asia is a solo exhibition by Kazakh artist Almagul Menlibayeva, presented by Artwin Gallery at No.9 Cork Street, London. She is an award-winning contemporary artist who works mostly in multi-channel video, photography and mixed-media installation. Almagul Menlibayeva invites viewers into a contemporary, technological, and philosophical world where water, myth, and the feminine intersect across Central Asia – from the Caspian Sea to the steppes of Kazakhstan – in landscapes shaped by geopolitical pressures, ecological crisis, and digital surveillance.

Highlights include the two-channel video Ride the Caspian (produced in collaboration with Iranian-American artist Bahar Behbahani), the cyber-textile installation Mother Water Gulbibi Balkhash, and the photographic series Forever Umai, each tracing entanglements of personal history, myth, ecological crisis, and political power. The curator is Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen.

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