- CollegeCamberwell College of Arts
- CourseBA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
- Graduation year2025
Secrets of the Soils is an immersive installation that transforms a gallery corner into a living fragment of a mystic forest.
Collaboratively built by Aisha Gurbanova and Qianwei Ye.
Aisha Gurbanova
Installation (2025)
Seasonal floristry, moss, natural wood logs.
Site-specific installation. 250x185cm (diagonal)
Nur (2025)
hand-build casted and sculpted porcelain doll. 32cm
Stillbirth (2025)
zinc plate etching on paper, 15x15cm
Her Hollow (2025)
zinc plate etching on paper, 26x15cm
Qianwei Ye
Pond (2024)
hand-build casted and sculpted porcelain doll, silk. 32cm
Sunrise, steady tide (2025)
zinc plate etching in alphine green, ink. 35x46cm.
Flower, umbilical cord II (2025)
glazed porcelain tile.
Whisper of the wood (2025)
glazed porcelain tile.
Final work
Pond and Nur are two porcelain girls living in a secret wood
Pond
Pond was lost
in the forest
love-in-a-mist blooms
flowers whispered
way to the forbidden fruit
unravelled
a fruit that she once heard
from ancient prophesy
she picked two from the tree
one for her
one for Nur
as she walks
one fell in the mud
moss sprawls
traces of the path erased
A mystical fruit that
does not belong to you nor me
they plant it in the soil
from where they live
the bird with beautiful
silky feathers
visit us once a year from afar
by the time she comes
we might have a baby tree
full of gifts to her growing family
Nur
Research and process
Mould-making
