
The exhibition Flowing Memory explores the multilayered semantic dimensions of Azerbaijani bathhouse culture through the interconnected notions of water, memory, and purity. Here, the bathhouse is presented not merely as an architectural form or a physical site, but as a vessel of social relations, personal recollections, and cultural continuity. In this context, bathhouse culture becomes a site for both collective and individual readings of memory, where spatial experience transforms into a symbolic reflection of one’s relationship with history.
Curated by Mansura Mammadaliyeva, the project brings together Honored Artist Sabina Shikhlinskaya, Nargiz Asgarova Ramizgizi, Aliya Bayramova, and Timur Zaripov, transforming the bathhouse into a fluid field of memory that flows between past and present. Through artistic expression, the exhibition reinterprets the layering of time, the materiality of remembrance, and the symbolic transformation of space.
Presented by Atesh Hub and developed under the art management of Agnessa Tariverdiyeva, Flowing Memory integrates the notions of cultural preservation, ecological awareness, and social responsibility into the core of contemporary art discourse. The project approaches these themes not only through artistic representation but also through the interrelation of space, memory, and human experience.
In this sense, Flowing Memory functions as both a research-based curatorial gesture and a poetic reflection on the contemporary human relationship with memory and place. As a creative platform that unites emerging artists and fosters dialogue through exhibitions and interdisciplinary collaborations, Atesh Hub contributes through this initiative to the contemporary reinterpretation of collective memory and the poetics of space.