Maka Batiashvili “Veiled in Fog”
June, 2025
68 Razmadze Street
“Baia Gallery” presents Maka Batiashvili for the first time in its space with the exhibition project “Veiled in Fog.” The artist has been working on this project for two years. The gallery will showcase paintings, graphics, and objects.
The world in which Maka Batiashvili is the author, ruler, and architect—where she defines its visual, emotional, and conceptual dimensions, and creates its order and “legislation”—is, on one hand, connected to the real world, and at the same time, distanced from it. It’s this tension between connection and detachment that gives her painting its specificity, uniqueness, and intrigue. Scenes from human life, from routine everyday moments, take on a distinct visual formula in your work. It’s as if you’re suggesting that every action, gesture, and expression—whether brushing one’s hair or resting in a field, picking flowers, taking a walk, meeting, kissing, swimming, or any other simple moment—each position in life matters. And it’s this uniqueness that gives life meaning. Maka transforms everyday fragments into something valuable, treating them as a lasting paradigm of unity between the world and the individual. To me, this is her code—the signature with which she acts as an artist. I would call it ‘’fetishization’’ of everyday life.
In all her paintings, it’s clear and deeply felt that a person’s personal space is very important, and their contact with others—or with the world—is portrayed with great delicacy. The need for solitude and the fragility of connection define the emotional stance of her works. The artist chose the visual language, the stylistic context, from the very beginning—right when she started painting. It simply undergoes internal vibrations from one exhibition to another.
Each work is a fragment of this one world… Everywhere, there is a minimalist space—with elements of landscape; unified characters with expressive gestures and masked expressions; and all of it is infused with an extraordinary ability to pulsate with color. These are the main components that construct Maka Batiashvili’s world—one that also holds countless nuances, contexts, and shades.
Baia: This project, “Veiled in Fog,” features several objects made from natural materials—or rather, parts of nature that the artist has turned into objects—like stones, a wooden log, and so on.
The title of the exhibition, Fog, is also taken from a natural phenomenon, but in your work, it acquires both contextual and emotional significance. Although the natural environment in her paintings is depicted minimally, sometimes only through subtle hints, the connection between human beings and nature is deeply felt; In Maka Batiashvili’s art, the human figure is an integral part of the world.
Baia Tsikoridze