Original artwork description:

Mixed media on Soviet-era cotton fabric.
This work addresses post-socialist trauma — the persistent psychological space left in the wake of absence, which time cannot neutralize. The layering of text fragments and gestural paint creates a fractured structure of memory, where emotion attempts to fill the void of a disappeared or lost identity. The use of Soviet-era cotton fabric carries not only material significance, but also symbolic weight — serving as a skin of the past on which the new era is still being redrawn.
The blurred figure, the raw red lower layer, and the visible root-like lines form a visual metaphor for inherited pain and the unresolved weight of memory.

Materials used:

Mixed media on Soviet-era cotton fabric.

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#mixed media #figurative expressionism #political art #emotional abstraction #text painting #conceptual portraiture #fabric artwork #post-socialist memory #red composition #contemporary grief 

He is no longer there, but (2025) Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA

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Mixed media on Soviet-era cotton fabric.
This work addresses post-socialist trauma — the persistent psychological space left in the wake of absence, which time cannot neutralize. The layering of text fragments and gestural paint creates a fractured structure of memory, where emotion attempts to fill the void of a disappeared or lost identity. The use of Soviet-era cotton fabric carries not only material significance, but also symbolic weight — serving as a skin of the past on which the new era is still being redrawn.
The blurred figure, the raw red lower layer, and the visible root-like lines form a visual metaphor for inherited pain and the unresolved weight of memory.

Materials used:

Mixed media on Soviet-era cotton fabric.

Tags:
#mixed media #figurative expressionism #political art #emotional abstraction #text painting #conceptual portraiture #fabric artwork #post-socialist memory #red composition #contemporary grief 
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Gela Mikava (b. 1995, Zugdidi, Georgia) Lives and works in Tbilisi Gela Mikava is a Georgian visual artist whose practice centers on inherited trauma, material memory, and the long afterlife of collapsed... Read more

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