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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

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2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

From the series: WIFI Telepathy / Spirits Connect

Painting

Ana Jibladze

Mixed media, paper
2020
21x30 cm.
Photo: Photo credits: Ana Jibladze

"The main character of this series is a creature with a dog body and a female face. The inspiration for this figure is probably the face of my favorite friend - Lava, my dog. Basically my inspiration always comes from strong personal emotions, love relationships, love or hate, but I have had a weird year - the strong feelings that I was used to and that nourished me, I did not have.

The emergence of lava in my life also coincided with this period, my relationship with him also played a big role in making me a significantly less dramatic person. For a while I could not do the work at all and blamed myself for feeling too calm, then I started thinking about working on exactly this unbearable calm. Coinciding with this period was also the fact that so many people around me became interested in Oriental spiritualism, it was strange to watch how people try to achieve a state of tranquility, which has become so unbearable for me.

There was already something dramatic in this. In my mind, spiritualism, the soul, telepathy is connected to the internet because this space is some invisible force in which only our thoughts and feelings are presented and not us as a whole, so emerged the first work followed by the second great work where human drama and broken serenity are intertwined. And then wifi telepathy, in which this quiet creature holds an alarm clock with its tail. I am still working on it. This work takes me to a big canvas, then I do not know what it will be, but this series has helped me a lot in understanding that everything can be painted and you do not have to have real experience of what you paint, think and observe is no less driven by emotions."

At.ge, Spirits Connect by WiFi - Interview with Anna Jibladze, 2020