- Gela MIKAVA
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- Erased Before Speaking
Original artwork description
Erased Before Speaking explores the tension between expression and erasure, between memory and silence. The work presents fragments of handwritten text—some legible, others violently crossed out or inverted—hovering across a surface that feels more like a mental landscape than a conventional painting.
Rather than offering a clear message, the piece withholds, disrupts, and denies resolution. The red text suggests urgency or confession, yet it is interrupted—often mid-thought—as if the artist deliberately censors their own voice. The result is a visual document of interrupted interiority: thoughts that wanted to be spoken but remained unfinished.
The painting operates at the boundary of language and image, embracing vulnerability as a central gesture. It evokes influences from conceptual art and post-minimalism, but its voice remains intimate and unrepeatable. The act of erasure becomes not a denial, but an assertion—of hesitation, of trauma, or of control.
In this work, silence is not emptiness; it is the final, deliberate word.
Materials used:
Acrylic and Watercolor on Linen canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Fabric
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 120 x 120 x 3cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#mixed media#textures#conceptual art#text based#figurative abstract#figurative abstraction#concept artistry#post-socialist art#post-memory#post-trauma
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Original artwork description
Erased Before Speaking explores the tension between expression and erasure, between memory and silence. The work presents fragments of handwritten text—some legible, others violently crossed out or inverted—hovering across a surface that feels more like a mental landscape than a conventional painting.
Rather than offering a clear message, the piece withholds, disrupts, and denies resolution. The red text suggests urgency or confession, yet it is interrupted—often mid-thought—as if the artist deliberately censors their own voice. The result is a visual document of interrupted interiority: thoughts that wanted to be spoken but remained unfinished.
The painting operates at the boundary of language and image, embracing vulnerability as a central gesture. It evokes influences from conceptual art and post-minimalism, but its voice remains intimate and unrepeatable. The act of erasure becomes not a denial, but an assertion—of hesitation, of trauma, or of control.
In this work, silence is not emptiness; it is the final, deliberate word.
Materials used:
Acrylic and Watercolor on Linen canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Fabric
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 120 x 120 x 3cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
Tags:
#mixed media#textures#conceptual art#text based#figurative abstract#figurative abstraction#concept artistry#post-socialist art#post-memory#post-trauma
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