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In this painting, I explore the slow erasure of identity under the weight of inherited silence. The face, barely visible and submerged in sweeping layers of blue and burning flesh tones, becomes a ghost of the self — a figure who is neither fully present nor completely gone. It is a portrait of someone born into a story they didn’t choose, fading between the lines of memory and oblivion.
The striped textile at the bottom is not decorative. It is a fragment of post-socialist material culture, a worn relic of domestic life — rigid, masculine, institutional. It contrasts violently with the abstracted dissolution above, forming a visual border between control and collapse.
This work is part of an ongoing investigation into post-socialist radiation — the silent, residual trauma that lingers in bodies, objects, and gestures. It asks: Who are we, when the past no longer speaks but still dictates form?
GELA MIKAVA (b. 1995, Georgia) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist known for his bold, figurative abstraction and textured, expressive compositions. With a background in architecture, Mikava seamlessly merges structural precision with raw artistic spontaneity, creating dynamic, layered surfaces that push the boundaries of modern and contemporary art.
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