Kiladze legitimizes safe territories for her characters turning these terrains that do not possess geographical dimension and rather imply a temporal category into the models of world perception which are related to the childhood phase and naive images. The author chooses long perspectives for depiction of the landscapes and scenes. She always presents the streets, fields, forests, squares, or conditional, colored planes from a distance to produce large spatial shots or small scenes full of figures scattered like the beads from a broken necklace. This way Kiladze creates a general flow of dynamic, and what is most astonishing, manages to replicate the movements and facial expressions of the miniature creatures with amazing virtuosity – an almost impossible thing to do due to the distant location of the images. The artist draws specific gestures or features of conditional schematic outlines using this manipulation for sending out the emotional signals that resonantly transfer the audience into the childhood, fill it with a feeling of happiness and achieve the main mission of art to conduct mental and emotional transmission, to reveal a secret of transition and transformation.

The artist’s works combine the effect of Alice in Wonderland, a magical ritual, and the power of play. The figures and their parodies of the bodies, facial expressions, and gestures along with the landscapes and primitivist deformed objects remind us of children’s drawings. They present colorful fairy tales with blue waves, bobbing pools, snowflakes, and flashes of sunlight; toy horses, goldfishes, nude bathers, funny animals, colorful meadows, fountains and water splashes.

Baia Tsikoridze