The same year she founded YAY Gallery, a social enterprise that is now operating as ARTIM Project Space.

She works in installation, sculpture, and painting to capture forgotten and marginal corners of her rapidly modernising country.

Despite a varied practice, the artist’s main focus remains her exploration of material as a tool for experimenting with and navigating the world she inhabits.

Early on in her work, Mahmudova developed a curiosity towards material, which manifested itself through experimentation with light, color, and matter in her landscapes and semi-abstract canvases.

As her paintings became increasingly more layered, the artist expanded her practice into the three-dimensional, applying the same approach to sculpture and creating environments both emotive and intense.

She would use wet, low contrast, dripping liquid paints through the heights of canvas to express a sense of melancholy.

Both textured and loose-formed artworks suggested the same idea, Aida do not want to limit her paintings so that most of her works cannot find a clear-cut outline of objects.

Our physical world is shifting at a pace so rapid that our memories are frequently blurred, and our ‘remembered’ past is often forgotten or altered by our subconscious.

[14] In November 2022, Aida Mahmudova presented Heaven Can Wait solo exhibition project at Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia [1]