Elene Chantladze

About

At kaufmann repetto, a span of works that include landscapes, portraiture, and still life exemplify her sensitive registers of mark-making and uses of unconventional materiality. The singular point of view in these drawings and paintings possess a diaristic intimacy while conjuring a rich image-repertoire of shared associations. While at Anton Kern, her different modes of world-building draw on art historical and literary traditions of the pastoral and the folk tale to explore the everyday and the speculative characteristics that buttress her portrayals of people and animals within the landscapes they inhabit. From washes of color to finer renderings evoking mood and atmosphere, these works elaborate narrative potential through figures, relations, and mise-en-scène that are both familiar and fanciful.