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Original artwork description:
A small folding schoolboard becomes a philosophical object in GELA MIKAVA’s “TEACH ME TO UNLEARN.”
The phrase, written upside down, challenges the viewer to reorient their perspective — both literally and mentally. What once symbolized obedience and order now questions the act of learning itself.
This work transforms a child’s tool of education into a quiet rebellion, a reflection on how knowledge is built, imposed, and eventually dismantled.
MIKAVA invites us to unlearn what we were taught — to rediscover freedom in forgetting.
Materials used:
Wooden folding chalkboard, chalk, mixed media installation
Tags:
#text art #quiet rebellion #learning paradox #thought provocation #school symbolism #minimal installation #inverted meaning #chalkboard piece #philosophical statementTEACH ME TO UNLEARN (2025) Mixed-media sculpture
by Gela MIKAVA
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£1,119.02
- Mixed-media sculpture on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 27 x 40 x 15cm
- Ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
A small folding schoolboard becomes a philosophical object in GELA MIKAVA’s “TEACH ME TO UNLEARN.”
The phrase, written upside down, challenges the viewer to reorient their perspective — both literally and mentally. What once symbolized obedience and order now questions the act of learning itself.
This work transforms a child’s tool of education into a quiet rebellion, a reflection on how knowledge is built, imposed, and eventually dismantled.
MIKAVA invites us to unlearn what we were taught — to rediscover freedom in forgetting.
Materials used:
Wooden folding chalkboard, chalk, mixed media installation
Tags:
#text art #quiet rebellion #learning paradox #thought provocation #school symbolism #minimal installation #inverted meaning #chalkboard piece #philosophical statement
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Artist Reviews (1)
Gela MIKAVA
Georgia
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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