Living Paintings
In recent years, my practice has expanded to embrace animation as a natural extension of painting. Starting from large-scale works on raw canvas, I animate select elements—figures, brushstrokes, lines, and backgrounds—so they begin to move, morph, and inhabit the pictorial space in unexpected ways. In these selected paintings, different elements are set in motion to reveal new relationships within the composition, as static images are transformed into living tableaux where bodies tumble, hover, and interact with their shifting environments.
The animation process, developed in close collaboration with professional animator Levan Kvanchakhadze, enables a seamless fusion of hand-drawn gesture and digital movement. These animated paintings can be screened at large scale, creating immersive visual experiences that extend the impact of the original works into the architectural space of the exhibition.
The animation does not merely illustrate motion, but actively explores the changing relationships between figure and ground, color and contour, surface and depth. As forms dissolve and reassemble, the viewer is drawn into a dialogue between painting and video, tradition and technology. The result is a unique hybrid—an artwork that oscillates between stillness and movement, rooted in the materiality of drawing but attuned to the fluid temporality of the digital image.
In these living paintings, technology does not negate the handmade gesture but amplifies its expressive potential, opening new possibilities for narrative, perception, and embodied experience within contemporary art.
In these living paintings, technology does not negate the handmade gesture but amplifies its expressive potential, opening new possibilities for narrative, perception, and embodied experience within contemporary art.