The artwork features a minimalist sketch of a reclining figure on a surface covered with layers of distressed and partially peeled white paint. The composition emphasizes the interplay of neutral tones and the fragmented, weathered quality of the background, which creates a sense of fragility and impermanence. The delicate, gestural lines of the sketch capture a fleeting moment of repose, suggesting an intimate and introspective subject matter. The overall aesthetic conveys a meditative, contemplative mood, hinting at the artist's intention to explore themes of vulnerability, transience, and the human condition through a subdued, understated visual language. ...
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. ...
