Untitled 2022

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this unnamed drawing on paper at an unknown date, using bold black lines, with highlights of red and yellow. You can almost feel Kakhidze’s hand moving across the page. I see the artist really going for it here. It's like they’re saying, "I'm gonna make this drawing, and I'm gonna make it now." Those figures—so direct, so immediate. I love the way the drawing’s lines vary, creating a sense of depth and movement. It reminds me of Guston, that feeling of a thought being worked out, right there in front of you. The drawing's visual language is so direct; you get the sense that Kakhidze is inviting us to engage in a dialogue—both with the artwork itself and with the broader questions it raises about art and its role in political discourse. It’s as if the artist is saying: Here’s my contribution, what’s yours going to be?