Gallery Girl reviews Gazelli Art House London group exhibition her shey qayidacaq.
"The Azeri saying her shey qayidacaq translates into English as what comes around, goes around, and is a reference to the cyclical patterns of history and its effect on regional development and national identity. If identity is connected to the land then this is explored on a grand scale in the work of Aida Mahmudova. Her large mixed-media paintings welcome the viewer into the gallery, providing them with a guided tour of the Azeri landscape in which mountainous rocky forms emerge against vast seas and colourful fields of greens…
…If anything, this show should certainly be seen sheerly to make up for the lack of Central Asian art in London. Spanning almost half a century, and across multiple forms of media, the work introduces a British audience to modern art and traditions from Azerbaijan"
– Lizzy Vartanian Collier
