Parmen Daushvili

Parmen Daushvili uses painting to navigate the terrains of displacement, memory, and the human condition. His compositions are distilled to their essential forms, employing a muted, restrained palette that evokes longing, otherness, and the lingering traces of both personal and collective experience. Daushvili’s work invites reflection on absence and presence, crafting subtle visual meditations that resonate deeply with viewers. Daushvili’s process is highly tactile and layered: he paints, scrapes, sands, and repaints his canvases, allowing each surface to carry the history of its making. This approach creates works that feel both fragile and resilient, reflecting the passage of time and the persistence of memory. Drawing inspiration from friends, family, passersby, and the shifting light of his studio, Daushvili captures fleeting moments and ordinary gestures, transforming them into meditative, resonant imagery. His brushwork is deliberate and restrained, emphasizing the emotional and temporal weight of each mark. Through this practice, Daushvili creates paintings that are intimate yet universal, inviting viewers to engage with subtle traces of experience, contemplation, and human presence. His work embodies a quiet tension between visibility and absence, presence and memory, forming a space for reflection on displacement and belonging. ...