Zibeyda Seyidova is an abstract painter whose practice explores memory, perception, and states of experience that exist before they acquire defined form or can be articulated through language. Drawing on a phenomenological understanding of perception, she approaches the individual not as a detached observer, but as an active participant in a world experienced through the body, emotion, and inherited histories.

Within Seyidova’s work, memory is understood not as a static archive of the past, but as an active force that shapes the present and connects individual experience with culturally transmitted sensations. Her paintings investigate this relationship through an open visual language that resists fixed symbolism and linear narrative.

Rather than directing the viewer toward a predetermined interpretation, Seyidova creates spaces in which meaning gradually emerges through sustained attention and contemplation. For the artist, painting extends beyond the representation of reality to become an event of perception, maintaining an open threshold between what is visible, what is experienced, and what has yet to be named.