Aida Mahmudova and Faig Ahmed have been brought together for this show to explore the intersecting territory on which their body of art is built. When viewing their works independently, there don't appear to be commonalities in their concepts, either visual or theoretical. However, if you place their artworks side by side, an unframed seascape by Mahmudova and the gravitational carpet by Ahmed can radiate the same spirit, the same mood.
That mood is of an explorer. Their work possesses the robust power inherent in any explorer, whether of distant lands, an astronomer investigating the universe, or a scientist searching for what lies within. There have always been those who explore inwards – for instance, miners in the earth's core, or the early twentieth-century psychologists who claimed that the deeper you investigate the unconscious, the closer you get to the truth. Looking inward will lead you to discover what lies beyond the surface.
