Художница Маду Ахмедова @jackymadu занимается междисциплинарными исследованиями человеческой природы и результаты своей работы воплощает в объекты искусства, главным образом в живописи и скульптуре. Желание исследовать и взаимодействовать со своими находками появилось у Маду ещё в детстве. «Я всегда искала способы выразить свой взгляд на вещи: много фотографировала, занималась документальной съемкой, снимала экспериментальные видео-эссе, везде брала с собой камеру, рисовала, часами разговаривала с людьми. Импульс к исследованию стал работой, и я, если честно, просто счастлива, что есть такая профессия — художник», — делится Маду.
Сейчас Маду работает с архетипами, много размышляет о непостоянстве, пустоте, бинарной природе человека и способах унять эту двойственность. «Изучая собственный культурный код, я экспериментирую с соединением прошлого и будущего и стремлюсь по-новому отразить современность», — говорит художница. Расспросили её о проектах и публикуем часть работ.
‘After Pain always comes Love.’ 160x220
acrylic, pastel, canvas
created in Bali, Indonesia and Kathmandu, Nepal. currently in Moscow
available for purchase.
Eight Peaks
180 × 260 cm
charcoal, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas
2025
China, Sichuan, Ya’an village
The painting was created during our travels through the Sichuan region of China.
The figures depict Hani schoolgirls — representatives of one of the ancient mountain peoples of southwest China, deeply connected to land, tradition and collective life.
Shown from behind, they face both emptiness and the future — something that, for me, echoes the image of eight Himalayan peaks.
Collaboration is always about knowing yourself strongly and ability to listen. Combining these two elements the beauty is able to be born.
The painting is available for purchase.
somewhere in the mountains of southwest China.
a temporary studio. long days of work. silence, laugh, tea, dust, sunlight on the floorboards. shared vision and giving birth to a painting.
«Eight Peaks» slowly emerged not as an image, but as a shared state.
autumn 2025, sichuan, china
Remembering my personal exhibition ‘Forms of Practice’ at @2m2gallery . The show was dedicated to the role of the sacred in contemporary art and forms of practice, especially when it comes to practice in art.
It was a great experience — we even held a tea ceremony for collectors and gallerists. It was a very heartfelt and important moment for me.
Now I’m preparing a new body of work and updating my portfolio. Can’t wait to come back to you with new paintings.
Wishing everyone a good day. 🪄
Flow
Preparing to work with the canvas today, alternating between dancing and listening closely to the music, I caught a state of flow. A moment when thinking stops and existence is lived like the current of a river — everything unfolds effortlessly, moves freely. You dissolve into the flow, the flow shapes your movements, and through your movements you gently guide it — listening to air, energy, rhythm.
Life is truly lived only in flow. In a non-analytical, fluid, continuous mutual touch — with reality, with another person, with matter, with the instrument. Painting in flow, music in flow, fingers and touches, glances and salivation, blinking, attention — everything is interconnected, co-arising, inseparable. Karma transforms. Rigid, fractured structures slowly dissolve.
The self, in such a state, becomes a blessing.
Om
