Untitled 2022

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this untitled drawing with markers, maybe colored pencils, and ink, on paper. It's all about lines, like a conversation scribbled down in real time. The colors are mostly black and white, with jolts of blue and red that pull you in. Look at that red – it's not just color, it's like a scream on the page, especially where it pours like blood from the dragon’s mouth onto the crowd below. That dragon, with its multiple heads, feels like a metaphor for a multi-pronged attack, or maybe the hydra-headed nature of conflict itself. The drawing is direct, the lines raw and urgent. There is no smoothing or blending here, no hiding the process. It’s all exposed and vulnerable. I am reminded of Nancy Spero’s scroll paintings, where figures repeat and overlap, creating a sense of unending trauma. Like Spero, Kakhidze isn't trying to give us a polished product; she's showing us a way of seeing, a way of feeling, that’s immediate and unfiltered. It’s not about answers, but about staying with the questions, the doubts, the sheer mess of it all.