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Not A Shadow (2025)
A painting about inherited trauma, silence, and the invisible weight we carry.
Reversed text, layered fabric, and restrained color fields speak what the body never could.

Materials used:

acrylic,oil,watercolor,pastel, and paper on soviet-era cotton fabric

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#contemporary art #conceptual painting #emotional abstract #fabric collage #text-based art #mixed medi #political body #post-soviet art #sublte brutality #reversed writing 

NOT A SHADOW (2025) Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA

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Not A Shadow (2025)
A painting about inherited trauma, silence, and the invisible weight we carry.
Reversed text, layered fabric, and restrained color fields speak what the body never could.

Materials used:

acrylic,oil,watercolor,pastel, and paper on soviet-era cotton fabric

Tags:
#contemporary art #conceptual painting #emotional abstract #fabric collage #text-based art #mixed medi #political body #post-soviet art #sublte brutality #reversed writing 
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Gela Mikava (b. 1995, Zugdidi, Georgia) Lives and works in TbilisiGela 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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