MAGICAL TRANSFORMATION
DIANA KAPIZOVA
video, performance (2024)

"I was sitting on a bench, many animals came out of the forest, at first they played with me, and then they began to bite my fingers, a pleasant smell came from their mouths. They said - wake up, wake up! You are one of us, you are one of us! A lonely vagabond, wandering in the endless expanses of a nightmare"

In Diana Kapizova’s "Magical Transformation" (2024), a video and performance, a fur-clad figure moves on a rocky lakeshore, facing a forested horizon beneath a muted sky, embodying a liminal state between human and animal.

The scene’s stillness and the figure’s ambiguous form challenge the boundaries of identity, positioning the subject in a space of ontological flux.

Diana’s work probes the fragility of the human when confronted with the wild, suggesting a transformation that dissolves anthropocentric certainty.

It becomes a meditation on becoming-other, where the self is reimagined as part of a non-human continuum, caught in a haunting, unresolved shift.