This summer, Fora Gallery makes its international debut with Perceptual Shifts, a pop-up exhibition in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town.
From June 6 to 12, visitors are invited to explore a vibrant showcase of contemporary painting at 13 Grand-Rue, where five prominent painters from Azerbaijan bring their distinct perspectives into dialogue.
Featuring works by Ayan Aziz-Mammadova, Anar Huseynzada, Niyaz Najafov, Regina Rzaeva, and Zohrab Salam-zadeh, the exhibition examines contemporary painting as an autonomous and ever-evolving visual landscape. Drawing from everyday imagery, oriental ornaments, portrayals, and floral motifs, the artists transform the canvas into a symbolic system where perception unravels from fixed interpretations.
Working across a range of painterly vocabularies, the featured artists reflect distinct yet intersecting approaches to image-making. Regina Rzaeva’s contemplative still lifes and portraits, rendered in soft tonal gradations and restrained gestures, meditate on the fragile registers of memory. Ayan Aziz-Mammadova’s abstractions, shaped through tactile surfaces and organic forms, draw from natural cycles and inner states, weaving a visual language attuned to renewal, vulnerability, and the states of becoming. Anar Huseynzada’s densely worked canvases channel the raw, textural energy of the Caspian steppe - his compositions unfold as psychological landscapes where human nature, mortality, and elemental forces converge. In contrast, Niyaz Najafov reduces form to a distilled graphic sensibility: in his bold floral series, the tension between line and gesture stages intimate dialogues around duality, relational balance, and the metaphoric weight of the everyday. Working at the intersection of painting and theatrical construction, Zohrab Salam-zadeh transforms the canvas into scenographic space - his compositions, layered with visual cues from decorative arts and illustrative traditions, evoke transitional geographies shaped by displacement, adaptation, and the fluid thresholds of belonging.
Perceptual Shifts invites viewers in Geneva to encounter painting as a site of transformation, where memory, matter, and meaning converge in flux.
Do not miss the opportunity to experience this compelling presentation in an intimate, week-long setting. Visit us at 13 Grand-Rue, Geneva, from June 6–12. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Private View and upcoming events.