Untitled 2017

This untitled artwork by Alevtyna Kakhidze is likely from a sketchbook, using simple lines and a limited palette of black, red, and blue to create a deeply personal visual language. It’s amazing how the act of artmaking itself becomes a form of thinking and feeling. The physicality of the medium is so immediate here - you can almost feel the pen scratching across the paper. Look at the contrast between the delicate, almost tentative lines of the angels on the left and the bold, assertive strokes that define the box and figures on the right. It's like a visual representation of different emotional states. I love how the red figures seem to be both contained by and escaping from the box, with those little map like pieces. Kakhidze's work reminds me a little of artists like Joseph Beuys, who also used simple materials and direct gestures to convey complex ideas about society, politics, and the human condition. Art invites us to embrace ambiguity, to find our own meanings and connections, rather than searching for definitive answers.