Zahra Polukhova is a person who often introduces herself with a smile to other people to make them feel better. She really loves being kind, happiness, and sustainability, and since she is a fashion designer, she often incorporates those three things into fashion and her paintings. All the way from Azerbaijan ( where she participated as a judge in Top Model Azerbaijan ) in Egypt, she was in Miss Eco Teen International and Miss Eco International as a judge. She also had 2 gallery exhibitions and won an honorable mention award in a gallery competition. Additionally, she dressed a Turkish pop star, Gulinler Aka. She wants to make you feel happier when you see these paintings and smile because they convey a beautiful message to the world about caring about our planet, especially in fashion!
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I have always seen the mannequin as a silent witness to our obsession with external identity. By covering this form in thick, chaotic layers of pigment, I am attempting to strip away its commercial purpose and replace it with a skin made of pure emotion. It is no longer a tool for displaying clothes; it is the body itself, rendered in the friction of color.
I treated this surface with a sense of urgency. I wanted the brushstrokes to feel like a pulse—vibrant oranges and deep teals clashing and merging across the torso. On the back, I’ve scratched out simple, primitive symbols through the paint, a way of reclaiming the 'blank' space with a personal, almost childlike language. For me, this work is about the internal landscape we carry under our clothes—the messy, beautiful, and unrefined layers of self that we rarely show the world. I want the viewer to feel the weight of the paint and the history of every mark, seeing the body not as a static shape, but as a living record of feeling