In Blue Forests, Silent Waters, Ulviyya Iman reinterprets the digital through the language of craft, creating paintings that combine figural imagery with visual disruptions drawn through digital media. Inspired by episodes of her native Azerbaijani culture, Iman explores the connection between the self and society through the contrast between self-portraits and depictions of people in social settings. The exhibition presents an image of society that is preserved through digital media, such as YouTube videos. Through an ethnographic gaze, viewers are introduced to the most earnest and intimate moments of social life, while simultaneously occupying the artist’s subjective perspective. Rather than monumental historical narratives, the exhibition focuses on vernacular archives: casual recordings, shared videos, and fragments of everyday sociality that shape collective and individual memory.

The scenes draw from everyday life, depicting social gatherings, cultural events, and intimate, personal encounters, partially obscured and disrupted by pixelation or blur. In the paintings, text, faces, and key details are withheld from the viewer, exploring how people interpret information when there is crucial context missing. The exhibition examines how meaning is constructed and whether it is distorted by the intricacies of the digital space, questioning the reliability of seeing, understanding, and remembering. Suspended between the porous digital space and unfiltered moments of shared cultural practices, the works navigate the instability of perception and memory in contemporary visual culture.