STILL THEY PAINT

26.07.-03.08.2025

Artists: Gvansta Agirba, Luka Chachkhiani, Tiko Imnadze, Anastasia Kvantaliani, Liza Kvantaliani, Mari Lauri, Elene Melikidze

Window Project annually opens its space to emerging voices engaged in diverse artistic and curatorial practices, with a clear awareness of the importance of visibility for young artists within the contemporary cultural milieu. This year, we are pleased to host the group exhibition Still They Paint, featuring works by young Georgian artists Gvansta Agirba, Luka Chachkhiani, Tiko Imnadze, Anastasia Kvantaliani, Liza Kvantaliani, Mari Lauri, and Elene Melikidze, curated by artist Ninka Skhiereli.

“Within a cultural landscape that so often conflates artistic worth with monetary value, these works assert themselves as deliberate, quiet acts of resistance. They are not conceived for the marketplace, but in defiance of it. Each painting - each gesture - is anchored in the specificity of a time and place, while simultaneously reaching beyond it, responding to an inner necessity: to echo, to reinterpret, to transform, to persist in the act of making, even amid uncertainty.

As Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” These artists embody that ethos. Their practices are sustained not by the pursuit of definitive answers, but by a devotion to open-ended inquiry - a willingness to inhabit ambiguity and allow unresolved questions to shape their work. For them, painting becomes a mode of investigation, a means of remaining in dialogue with what resists finality. They continue - not to resolve - but to honor the fertile tension of questioning itself.

Still They Paint brings together these traces: a space in which seven distinct voices intersect and reverberate. It is a chorus that resists erasure, a testament to the unwavering - even subversive - commitment to create regardless of recognition. This gathering affirms art’s enduring capacity to speak when all else falls silent.”- Ninka Skhiereli