Exhibition Venue: Vere Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Dates: 30.01 - 03.02.2024
The exhibition "INVOLUTIONS" invited viewers to embark on a metaphysical journey through the enigmatic realms of Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine's artistry. Alexandra, a young French artist, was honing her craft at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague, Netherlands, in the year 2024. She is a versatile force, delving into various graphic techniques such as experimental drawing, etching, silk screen, and drypoint printing.
Her thematic landscape navigates abstract odysseys within inner worlds and non-existing realities, a pursuit to capture the hidden and elusive. Through the intricate process of printmaking, she conjured thin contrast lines, giving life to otherworldly figures and images with profound expressive nature.
The exhibition unfolded in three distinct spaces. The initial two spaces immersed the viewer in abstract drawings and etchings, crafting a timeless dream that blurs the boundaries between black and white, figurative and abstract. These works beckoned contemplation, their contents veiled behind a shroud, inviting the viewer to listen to their whispers rather than decipher them at a mere glance.
The culmination unfolded in the final space, featuring silk screen printed images that portrayed silhouettes of vanishing mothers and their children. Drawing inspiration from orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary and the 'hidden mother photography' phenomenon, this installation weaved a narrative of fatality and the omnipresence of the divine. Unseen faces of spirits and forgotten souls, alongside places that exist no more, surrounded the viewer with lingering, unanswered questions.
Pavlovskaya-Lokchine's exhibition was a metaphorical voyage that invited the viewer to traverse the inner sanctum of the artist's world, where the ethereal and the tangible converge in a dance of profound introspection.
The project was realized at Vere Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia, and was curated by Thea Goguadze in collaboration with Reach Art Visual.
