Sacred Expositions is an ongoing textile practice by Alexandra Morozova that explores the Kazakh traditional embroidery technique biz keste as a performative and artifactual tool within the New Genius methodology. This practice translates fragments of texts and handwritten phrases by Sergey Kalmykov into textile form through hand embroidery on fabrics from different eras.

The flexible, living line of biz keste allows Alexandra to transfer Kalmykov’s manuscripts onto fabric while preserving their energy and genius irradiation. The embroidered phrases operate as active formulas — affirmations, invocations, and activated fragments of thought — clearly able to affect reality.

The works draw on the structural logic of tus kiiz — a traditional Kazakh wall textile that operates as a spatial threshold and carries the capacity to connect the worldly and the otherworldly. Like tus kiiz, the embroidered textiles are conceived as vertical, architectural elements: a central textual field framed by an ornamental border, with an open lower edge. This structure positions the textile as a passage and a site of transition.

Within ORTA’s practice, the embroidered works function as performative instruments rather than autonomous artworks. They are activated through performance and installation and serve as functional elements within performative environments. Since 2020, Sacred Expositions have been employed in exhibitions, installations, and performances in Moscow, Venice, New York, Seoul, and Berlin, including the Venice Biennale and the Seoul Mediacity Biennale.