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Abstracted face Series (2024)Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA
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Original artwork description
In this painting, I explore the slow erasure of identity under the weight of inherited silence. The face, barely visible and submerged in sweeping layers of blue and burning flesh tones, becomes a ghost of the self — a figure who is neither fully present nor completely gone. It is a portrait of someone born into a story they didn’t choose, fading between the lines of memory and oblivion.
The striped textile at the bottom is not decorative. It is a fragment of post-socialist material culture, a worn relic of domestic life — rigid, masculine, institutional. It contrasts violently with the abstracted dissolution above, forming a visual border between control and collapse.
This work is part of an ongoing investigation into post-socialist radiation — the silent, residual trauma that lingers in bodies, objects, and gestures. It asks: Who are we, when the past no longer speaks but still dictates form?
Materials used:
Mixed media on canvas and Clear Cellophane Wrap...
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 100 x 3cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#abstract portrait#white abstract#modern abstract#contemporary abstract#abstracted face#modern portrait#white color#figurative abstraction#white portrait#white minimalism
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Original artwork description
In this painting, I explore the slow erasure of identity under the weight of inherited silence. The face, barely visible and submerged in sweeping layers of blue and burning flesh tones, becomes a ghost of the self — a figure who is neither fully present nor completely gone. It is a portrait of someone born into a story they didn’t choose, fading between the lines of memory and oblivion.
The striped textile at the bottom is not decorative. It is a fragment of post-socialist material culture, a worn relic of domestic life — rigid, masculine, institutional. It contrasts violently with the abstracted dissolution above, forming a visual border between control and collapse.
This work is part of an ongoing investigation into post-socialist radiation — the silent, residual trauma that lingers in bodies, objects, and gestures. It asks: Who are we, when the past no longer speaks but still dictates form?
Materials used:
Mixed media on canvas and Clear Cellophane Wrap...
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 100 x 3cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#abstract portrait#white abstract#modern abstract#contemporary abstract#abstracted face#modern portrait#white color#figurative abstraction#white portrait#white minimalism
Gela MIKAVA
Georgia
About
Born on November 16, 1995, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Gela Mikava is an artist with a unique multidisciplinary approach, blending architectural precision with artistic innovation. With a foundation rooted in both... Read more