Year: 2019
Medium: watercolor, marker on plaster, wood frame
Dimensions: 77 x 60.5 cm (30 1/4 x 23 7/8 in.)
Acquired from TAKE NINAGAWA, 2022
As one of the prominent artists of the contemporary art scene in Georgia, Djordjadze is best known for her installation works and sculptural techniques. This work stands out as a painting, but the sculptural aspect of it stands out even more. Djordjadze uses one of her favorite materials, plaster, as the main material in this work. The plaster is densely applied to the warm wooden frame, leaving numerous scratches, and it is gently overlapped with vivid pink and aqua blue transparent watercolors as base tones. Djordjadze’s approach is undoubtedly sculptural as the plaster is embedded and used as a pigment and the bulge formed by the thickness of brush strokes or paints that appear to be engraving in a typical painting. This work does not symbolize any specific image. Rather, the materials used in the work define its form, and the image that gradually emerged from that form inspires and derives the next action, as if a new image is created while rhyming a poem. In the same way as her sculptures and installations, Djordjadze creates a surprisingly peaceful harmony with ordinary, mundane materials and transforms them into unknown entities.
