Original artwork description:

If you show weakness for even a second — they’ll crush you.
Here, tenderness is punished.
In this system, feelings have no value.
The ones who waver — are erased.
This painting explores the quiet violence of vulnerability. A suspended shirt, flowered yet empty, suggests the aftermath of someone who dared to feel. Beneath it, fragmented bodies and erased gestures hover in a muted battlefield.

Materials used:

oil, acrylic, pigment,marker,pastel,watercolor,paper on Soviet-Era cotton fabric

Tags:
#vintage fabric #figurative abstraction #contemporary painging #handwritten text #post-soviet trauma #political body #disrupted surface #subtle brutality #maximum tension #emotional resistance 

UNTITLED-Soft/flowers (2025) Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA

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If you show weakness for even a second — they’ll crush you.
Here, tenderness is punished.
In this system, feelings have no value.
The ones who waver — are erased.
This painting explores the quiet violence of vulnerability. A suspended shirt, flowered yet empty, suggests the aftermath of someone who dared to feel. Beneath it, fragmented bodies and erased gestures hover in a muted battlefield.

Materials used:

oil, acrylic, pigment,marker,pastel,watercolor,paper on Soviet-Era cotton fabric

Tags:
#vintage fabric #figurative abstraction #contemporary painging #handwritten text #post-soviet trauma #political body #disrupted surface #subtle brutality #maximum tension #emotional resistance 
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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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