This abstract artwork features a minimalist composition with a predominant use of neutral tones, primarily shades of gray, beige, and white. The overall appearance suggests a weathered, dilapidated surface, with visible brush strokes and texture creating a sense of impermanence and decay. The central element is a faint, silhouetted figure, rendered in a simple, gestural style, potentially representing the human form in a state of distress or vulnerability. The artist's intention may be to explore themes of transience, fragility, and the human condition within a distressed, urban environment. ...
Rather than simply dividing or reorganising existing gallery spaces, Tolia Astakhishvili's installations spill across newly defined thresholds of space. The artist's installations combine decay and destruction with a sense of inexorable replication and endless reconfiguration of space. Building elements in her work become signifiers of both what they are and what they undo, of their assembly and disassembly. In this way, Astakhishvili's work appropriates, extends and incorporates given spaces. The audience is also subsumed in Astakhishvili's work, becoming another element framed by the proliferating and unreasonable architecture. ...
