Mahmudova draws inspiration from the landscape and architecture of Azerbaijan, regularly exploring memory and nostalgia. Her work is based on emotions, feelings, distorted memories of the past, present and future. At the same time, there is no past, no present, and no end. It’s a cluster “past-present-future” in a fragment, with no logical explanation within it. Commenting on her rapidly modernising country’s forgotten and marginal corners, Mahmudova uses art as an outlet to give a feeling of stability to co-exist in this unprecedented environment. Art gives no boundaries and opens to any communicational variations for the artist.

These highly textured works executed in an earthly palette demonstrate Mahmudova’s process-driven practice as she renders the details of her compositions with her hands or by using visceral brushstrokes and sculptural attachments. The artist also harmoniously connects with the landscape through physical nature of the materials used such as coal, cotton, wood and soil, intuitively exploring the spectrum of universal human sentiments of love, loss, memory, and desire, eschewing external constructs.