Like someone piecing together fragments of a dream, Elene Shatberashvili creates quiet, symbolic images that blur the line between the inner world and everyday life. Her work moves through intimate self-portraits, still lifes, and dreamlike scenes shaped by personal and cultural memory. Circles, ladders, eggs, mirrors, and flowers appear across her compositions like recurring symbols—visual mantras that carry both emotional and metaphysical weight. She favors soft, muted palettes and textured surfaces, where forms seem to hover between presence and disappearance. Shatberashvili often explores identity through introspection and ritual: objects become vessels for emotion, while faces and bodies appear as fleeting traces. Her visual language blends precision with openness—observed detail with atmospheric ambiguity. Through repetition and restraint, she creates paintings that feel timeless and deeply personal, rooted in quiet gesture, memory, and the poetics of everyday symbols. Her practice is an ongoing meditation on belonging, transformation, and the elusive nature of seeing. ...