MY HOUSE AND THE PEOPLE I MISS, 2025
Painting series, acrylic on canvas, different sizes
From Vivid Stories, group exhibition, QGallery, 2025
Hello!
My name is Lamara, and Im 11 years old.
My house is full of memories where I feel safe and happy. Each room has stories about my family. My parents, grandparents, siblings, and cousins who visit sometimes.
But it can feel a little empty when family members aren’t around. I miss my cousins and the fun we have together, like playing games and telling stories.
Even when they are far away, I hold those memories in my heart. My house feels like a big hug, reminding me of the people I love and miss. They will always be part of my home and me.
Baku, 2025
ABOUT
In the autumn of 2023, QGallery presented the first solo exhibition of Lamara Fataliyeva. For such a young artist, it was both a challenge and a moment of extraordinary realization — her paintings resonated as a cohesive, self-assured statement, announcing the voice of a new generation.
Lamara’s work unfolds as emotional landscapes, where figurative and abstract elements coexist in delicate balance. Her palette blends muted, luminous tones with vivid accents; each brushstroke breathes, becoming a metaphor for inner life. Every painting is an intimate dialogue, inviting reflection, empathy, and contemplation. Vulnerability and strength, the personal and the universal, the fleeting and the timeless converge seamlessly in her art.
The solo exhibition marked a pivotal point in Lamara’s career, establishing her as an artist whose practice transcends formal exploration to address deeper themes — memory, balance, and human openness.
In the summer of 2025, her works appeared in a group exhibition at QGallery. Within this context, they entered a new dialogue while retaining their singular voice. Audiences again remarked on her nuanced emotional sensibility and her ability to command attention and create spaces for thoughtful engagement.
Lamara Fataliyeva represents a generation for whom art is both self-expression and a means of connection, a search for harmony and meaning. Her early projects at QGallery are not simply first steps — they are fully formed artistic statements that have already secured a place in the cultural landscape of contemporary Azerbaijani art.
For me, as the curator of her debut exhibition, working with Lamara was a rare and inspiring experience. In her sincerity and artistic courage lies a compelling confidence: an artist whose journey is only beginning, yet whose voice already speaks with clarity and conviction.
Narmina Khalilova
Curator, Coordinator of Local and International
Art Projects, Copywriter
I first encountered Lamara in 2019 — a quiet presence, half-hidden behind her mother, yet her gaze betrayed a vivid, unguarded curiosity. It was the look of someone on the threshold of discovery, eager to meet the person with whom she would soon share the intimate act of painting. That moment remains etched in my memory.
When Lamara joined our studio shortly thereafter, she began, from her very first sessions, to produce works with a striking assurance, each new canvas following swiftly upon the last. Before my eyes she unfolded — not only as a young artist, but as an emerging individual. There were moments of frustration, when a composition resisted her vision, and emotions threatened to overwhelm her. Yet she never succumbed to defeat; persistence became her quiet hallmark, and with each challenge she reached an outcome that was all the more luminous for the struggle that preceded it.
With time, her artistic language deepened. She learned to navigate her own process, to discern what a work demanded, and to answer it with solutions that were distinctly her own. Each year brought a new inflection to her style — subtle yet unmistakable shifts that spoke of both personal and artistic growth. Observing this evolution was a privilege, a reminder that teaching is never a one-way exchange. I found myself learning from her: patience, resilience, and the joy of inhabiting the creative process. She, in turn, absorbed the intricacies of technique, the quiet alchemy of artistic decision-making.
Our sessions extended far beyond the formal boundaries of instruction. They became spaces for conversation, debate, dreaming — a place where art and life were intertwined. We played, we danced, we laughed. These moments, woven together, form some of the most treasured chapters of my own artistic journey.
Lamara is a rare spirit — intelligent, perceptive, and deeply attuned to the world around her. To have been a witness and a companion to her early creative path is an honour. I hold no doubt that the future will bring her a voice that resonates far beyond the walls of any studio.
Sayali Mammadova-Garayeva
Artist, Lamara's teacher
Owner of Art Studio by Sayali
CHRONOLOGY
Lamara Fataliyeva
(b. 2014, Baku, Azerbaijan)
Since 2019 takes her art studies at Art Studio by Sayali, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Solo exhibitions:
2023
My Universe, solo exhibition, QGallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
Group exhibitions:
2026
Where dreams turn to color, QGallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
2025
Freedom, Peace Pals 28th Annual Peace Pals International Art Exhibition certificate, NY, USA
Vivid Stories, children art exhibition, QGallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
2024
My Wonderful World, group exhibition, Zaman Art Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
