This minimalist black-and-white sketch depicts two figures in a close, intimate embrace. The simple lines and expressive strokes convey a sense of tenderness and vulnerability. The artist employs an abstract, almost sketch-like style, focusing on the essential outlines and gestures rather than intricate details. The piece appears to explore themes of human connection, intimacy, and the raw emotion of interpersonal relationships. The artwork's unfinished, spontaneous quality suggests the artist's intention to capture a fleeting moment or a personal, emotive encounter. ...
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. ...
