Untitled 2022

Here's a raw, untitled piece by Alevtyna Kakhidze, rendered with a directness that hits you right away. It feels like it was made urgently; the strokes are kind of feverish and it's like she is literally painting with her feelings, you know? I mean, look at that red—it's raw, it’s visceral, it’s all over this figure. The emotion is thick, almost like the paint itself. And then there’s the writing, scrawled right there on the page. It’s all part of the same gesture, the same need to speak or express. I am reminded of outsider art, of artists like Henry Darger, who just had to make their visions real, no matter what. The whole image feels like a kind of raw scream, a direct line from the artist's gut to the paper, bypassing all the usual filters. It reminds us that art can be this direct, this unfiltered.