fabric of home

Living abroad for most of my adulthood, I became worried about losing connection with Turkmenistan and Turkmen culture — significant parts of my identity. 

Addressing identity in the decolonial framework of the former Soviet republics, this project aims to understand the place I was born and raised and how its historical changes have shaped me.

This long-term project conceptually consists of several parts and is based on personal experience, Turkmen history and Turkmen mythology. 

2020 — WIP.



Exhibitions and Projections

2024       Belvedere 21 Museum, group screening, Vienna, Austria
2024       Unseen Perspectives, CEU Visual Studies Platform, group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
2024       JETIQARAQSHY, group screening, UK, KZ, KG, TJ, 
2023       Capri Festival, group exhibition, Capri, Italy
2022       MoFA+, Meykindik — Erkindik Exhibition, group exhibition, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Fabric of Home. Mayya Kelova artist
Fabric of Home. Mayya Kelova artist
Fabric of Home. Mayya Kelova artist

Unseen Perspectives 2024

Curator: Daniel HALASZ, Visiting Professor of Photography 

@ CEU Visual Studies Platform/ Ádám Hushegyi