The exhibition follows the transformation of a single floral motif through three artistic practices and materials rooted in Uzbekistan: thread, pigment and glass. Madina Kasimbaeva translates the flower through suzani embroidery; Davlat Toshev reinterprets it through miniature painting and abru; and Ruben Saakyan transforms it into glass, preserving its colour while retaining the material’s inherent fragility.
Across these different practices, the flower is never simply reproduced. It is transformed through the decisions of each maker—what to preserve, simplify, reinterpret or invent—revealing the relationship between craft and design, tradition and individual authorship.
The exhibition also draws on Bukhara’s culture of making and pattern, recalling the saying associated with Bahauddin Naqshband, dil ba yor, dast ba kor—“the heart with the Friend, the hands at work.” Presented within a traditional courtyard house in Doha, itself marked by floral patterns, the three practices come together to form a contemporary garden: one in which motifs travel across materials, generations and geographies.