Untitled 2017

Curator: Today we’re looking at an untitled drawing by Alevtyna Kakhidze, created in 2017. It's an ink drawing on paper, and it very much feels like a page torn straight from the artist's sketchbook. Editor: Oh, I love this! There’s such a playful energy. It reminds me of those existential doodles I used to scribble in my notebooks during lectures when I was younger. The black ink on white paper is simple, direct—it lets the humor and oddness of the figures really shine through. Curator: Absolutely. Kakhidze’s work often incorporates narrative elements and a touch of the absurd, very characteristic of contemporary art exploring themes of personal identity. Look at the use of text within the drawings—the words almost become part of the visual composition itself. Editor: Time… dreams… Hamlet? The text jumbles it together like snippets from a late-night conversation. Is that a person embracing the "time" cloud or being swallowed by it? And then that little dude wearing what looks like a frying pan as a hat...it's delightful! Curator: Kakhidze comes from a context profoundly affected by post-Soviet transition. It invites consideration whether these drawings can be seen as reflections on the destabilization of meaning. Notice how established symbols seem repurposed or re-contextualized. Editor: It's as if Kakhidze is winking at us from behind the drawing. This Hamlet isn’t brooding; he looks genuinely puzzled clinging onto that stick. The lines are simple but full of personality, which suggests something new each time I gaze. Curator: Right, this work is an intriguing intersection between personal narrative and broader cultural questioning. The artist captures an everyday scene—an image plucked right from our own human consciousness. Editor: Ultimately it's about the quiet poetry of the ordinary, don’t you think? The simple black ink allows you to feel it like some beautiful emotional note, raw with its quirks, imperfections and vulnerabilities that really grabs the senses.