There is a quiet confidence to the work of Louisa Bakhmullaeva. It does not ask for attention. It pulls you in slowly, almost privately, the way a dream lingers long after you wake up. Her art feels suspended in time, hovering somewhere between light and shadow, material and emotion. This is not work made to shout across a room. It is made to be felt.
For more than two decades, Bakhmullaeva has been carving out her own visual language as a self taught artist, guided less by formal rules and more by intuition. Her journey is deeply personal. A search for self that gradually expanded outward, toward the cosmos, toward silence, toward the idea of infinity itself. That inner exploration is visible in every piece. Her works feel fragile but intentional, like worlds carefully assembled and left open for the viewer to enter.
Working across painting and mixed media, Bakhmullaeva shapes plaster and resin with a lightness that feels almost paradoxical. These are heavy materials, yet in her hands they appear weightless. Surfaces crack, blur, and glow in soft layers of color, evoking distant galaxies, celestial bodies, or landscapes that feel remembered rather than seen. Nothing is literal, and that is precisely the point. Her art lives in suggestion. It gives just enough, then steps back.
Silence plays a central role in her practice. Not emptiness, but a kind of charged stillness. The kind that exists in outer space, or in the moments just before sleep. Her compositions often feel paused mid breath, inviting viewers to slow down and sit with them.
Dreams are another recurring thread. Not dream imagery in the obvious sense, but the logic of dreams themselves. Fragmented, fluid, and emotional. Her delicate color palettes move between pale neutrals and cosmic blues and violets. You are never quite sure where you are standing, and that ambiguity is what makes the work linger.
Beyond the canvas, Bakhmullaeva’s creative life is equally layered. She is also a designer, a free photographer, and a mural artist, extending her vision into larger, more immersive spaces. Her murals bring that same sense of suspended calm into public environments, translating her inner worlds onto walls meant to be lived with. It is a rare balance, the ability to move between the personal and the communal without losing depth.
Louisa Bakhmullaeva’s work asks viewers to pause, to look closely, to exist in the space between thought and feeling.
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