Agil Abdullayev (they/them) is a Frankfurt-based Azerbaijani artist whose interdisciplinary practice engages with the entanglements of queerness, public space, and the socio-political afterlives of post-socialist transitions. Working across film, installation, and performance, their work investigates how the residual structures of power in post-Soviet spaces continue to shape conditions of visibility, desire, and intimacy. Drawing on strategies of refusal, opacity, and coded aesthetics, Abdullayev situates queer experience within broader questions of spatial politics and cultural memory. Their practice embraces absence, fragmentation, and the archival as critical tools to explore how non-normative identities negotiate systems of control.

Their recent exhibitions includeKunsthalle, Osnabrück; Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; Kasseler Dokfest; Microscope Gallery, New York City; Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; South London Gallery and Liverpool Biennial.

 

showing at quovadis: 

October 11, 8.05–8.40 AM

Radicals in between trees and dicks

one-channel video and two channel audio 

Full HD, colour and sound, 36 min; 2024