Having worked for over twenty years as both an artist and a gallerist she has been one of the strongest influences on the development of contemporary art in post-Soviet Russia.

In her works, Salahova investigates gender themes, women's sexuality in the context of Islam,[2] contrasts between the East and the West, matters of prohibition, esotericism, and beauty.

She is one of the key artists on a contemporary Russian art scene working in various mediums, such as photography, sculpture, painting, and installations.

Her selection of this style is fitting, as Persian miniatures historically were private books, allowing artists to express themselves more freely than they would with more public wall art.

Although these are typically executed in vibrant, vivid colors, Salahova's miniatures are more somber, as though carrying the strength and the weight of their subjects.

Two of her artworks previously approved by the ministry of culture were ordered to be covered and eventually removed from the exhibition a day before the opening, "because of government sensitives towards the nation's status as a secular Muslim country".

[8] The gallery works with artists, who combine straight conceptualism with radical Aestheticism, such as: Rauf Mamedov, Elena Berg, Nikola Ovchinnikov, Konstantin Latyshev and others.