Aliya Davletova




Flora Incognita
2025Flora Incognita is a painting series that imagines a speculative ecology through botanical fictions. Each work is painted with oil on velvet and presented as a unique plant-like specimen complete with fictional taxonomy, habitat data, and behavioral traits. 

The project operates at the intersection of art, science fiction, and symbolic biology, treating each image as a sample extracted from an unknown ecosystem. These specimens do not represent nature as we know it – rather, they suggest a parallel field of emotional flora: imagined organisms that shimmer with latent presence and evoke ritual, memory, and metamorphosis. In form and format, the series mimics archival botanical illustrations, yet subverts their objectivity through poetic logic.1. Lacrimata Matris, 2025
    140 x 60 cm
    Oil on velvet

2. Simbiofloris Helix, 2025
    46 x 30
    Oil on velvet

3. Serpentophylla Dormiens, 2025
    46 x 30 cm
    Oil on velvet

4. Cricatta Caloris, 2025
    46 x 30 cm
    Oil on velvet

5. Germinatus Incognitus, 2025
    20 x 25 cm
    Oil on velvet

6. Lunathus Noctifer, 2025
    45 x 35 cm
    Oil on velvet

7. Devoratrix Maxima, 2025
    140 x 110 cm
    Oil on velvet

8. Cunaria Umbralis, 2025
    140 x 60 cm
    Oil on velvet

9. Lucenofloris Undina, 2025
    40 x 60 cm
    Oil on velvet
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