Abu Dhabi Art

CH64 Gallery is pleased to present a three-artist booth at Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2024 featuring works by Niniko Morbedadze, Mishiko Sulakauri, and Nino Eliashvili. Bringing together three distinct yet interconnected practices, the presentation explores themes of mythology, transformation and memory. 

Niniko Morbedadze (b. 1957, Tbilisi) working primarily with acrylic and India ink on paper, Morbedadze creates surreal, dreamlike compositions that explore the subtle psychological and emotional dynamics between figures and their environments. Her meticulously detailed works combine delicate linework, textured hatching, and layered compositions, balancing sculptural monumentality with fluid movement and expressive gesture. Ambiguous narratives, charged glances, and animated shadows imbue her works with a distinctive sense of mystery and introspection.

Mishiko Sulakauri’s (b. 1996, Tbilisi) practice considers societal transformation through observed changes in heritage sites, shared spaces, and rural and urban environments. The act of seeing is integral to his process. Absurdist, chaotic sights stemming from uncanny placements and additions to spaces and contexts around him fuel his work. Sulakauri captures instances of simultaneity and juxtaposition in his surroundings and riffs on these momentary aberrations. He creates a personal semiotic language combining pre-Christian markings, contemporary technological and construction signs, and multi-national corporation logos. These symbols and references weave together narratives of uncertainty, anxiety, sanctioned and unsanctioned change, absurdity, luck, resilience, and survival. His shows are staged as cohesive scenes where works seamlessly interlace with the environment they are shaped by and shape. Sulakauri’s practice highlights the interplay between past and present, tradition and innovation, and individual and collective memory. Sulakauri’s use of materials is guided by his process, which often leads him to experimentation.

Nino Eliashvili (b. 1989, Tbilisi) works in a variety of media including watercolour, oil and acrylic. Her watercolour works on paper are characterised by a distinctive ethereal quality as the figures and objects depicted are often translucent and airy both in their appearance and movement across the paper. In an impressive technical feat, Eliashvili brings this same quality of weightlessness to her oil paintings. Her work ties together

elements of technology, mythology, and fashion as she explores the hallmarks of contemporary life by focusing on emotions, spirituality, and aesthetics.