Untitled 2022

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this drawing with ink on paper, it's dated February 22, 2022. The lines are raw, immediate, and the text is integrated right into the image. Look at the way the figures are outlined, almost like paper dolls, with these pools of brown ink defining their forms. The brown ink, a deliberate, heavy outline, gives weight to the figures, in contrast to the sharp, thin lines of the black ink. Then you see the red, like splashes of blood, so visceral against the starkness of the drawing. It's interesting how she marries text and image, not as separate entities, but as interwoven parts of a single expression. It reminds me of artists like Cocteau, who also had that freedom of line and text, a kind of poetic simplicity. It’s a powerful reminder that art doesn't always need to be polished or perfect; sometimes it's the raw, unfiltered expression that hits the hardest.