TENGRI. LIGHT WORKS

These works explore some of the deep, recurring themes in art and spirituality, of how we experience the mystery of nature and find our place in the world.

Tengri, an ancient, silent religion in which you relate the self to nature and understand you are a part of it.

“Tengri see colours as symbolic of the natural order of things. Көк, which describes all the blues and greens means ‘god given’. Tengri itself is ‘a great-blue sky’. Sary describes all that is made of earth and all the earthly colours from yellow through red and brown. Umay is the female manifestation of Tengri, coming from earth which is Sary (yellow). So, when we are alive our body is from the earth and our soul from the sky and when we die, each returns to its place, and the circle is complete. We are this circle.”

Aiganym Gali

Tengri. Light Works began in 2021 and grew out of Steppe, the long meditative body of work that came before it. It moves from the abstract colour fields of Steppe, nothingness, to the geometric forms of Tengri, being. By setting biomorphic and geometric shapes into the spaces Steppe opened, Gali mirrors her own evolution: a growing awareness of self that keeps a sense of our place, and the space we create, under this “grey blue sky”.