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In this large-scale work, color, texture, and language converge into a multilayered narrative field. The painting simultaneously carries the bodily, the psychological, and the material, functioning as a shifting emotional topography.
The upper register—dense with saturated wine-red masses—creates a sense of psychological pressure, from which cascading drips descend into the more translucent lower space. These vertical lines operate as a temporal flow, suggesting movements of a body that has passed through the canvas yet has not fully disappeared.
Beneath these layers, a faint figurative silhouette emerges: fragile, almost ghostlike, a bodily imprint suspended between memory and presence. It does not dominate the narrative but quietly anchors the painting with a sense of human vulnerability and unresolved longing.
Two small attached canvases interrupt the flatness of the surface, introducing an architectural and almost installation-like dimension. These fragments act as archival notations—small plates of memory—carrying upside-down texts such as “WE LOST FAITH TO FIND TRUTH” and “LIGHT SURVIVES THE SILENCE.” Rather than offering direct messages, they function as open emotional signifiers, capturing states of fracture, doubt, faith lost and regained.
GELA MIKAVA (b. 1995, Georgia) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist
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