Gala Reyа


Interdisciplinary Artist

Exploring how language, ritual, attention and memory shape human perception.


Selected Works
Polysemy” Series



Before Meaning

100Х100

2026

"Field of Confusion" Series

Bifurcation Point

100Х100

2025

White Noise

100Х100

2025

Entropy of Thought

100Х100

2025

"Structures of Connection" Series

Echoes of Attention

50Х50

2025

Birth of Meaning

50Х50

2025

Echoes of Attention 2

50Х50

2025

Research

My practice investigates how language, ritual, attention and memory shape human perception.

Rather than treating language as a tool of communication, I approach it as a living structure that shapes thought, experience and cultural memory. Ritual, writing and attention are understood as systems through which meaning emerges and is transmitted across time.

Working across painting, installation and augmented reality, I create environments that invite viewers to experience the threshold between perception and meaning. Each project forms part of an ongoing research into the invisible structures that shape the way we see, remember and relate to the world.

Research Areas

Language Writing as architecture of thought.

Memory Memory as a living process of reconstruction.

Attention Attention as an aesthetic and ethical practice.

Perception Experience before meaning.

Selected Exhibitions
Solo

2026 Collaboration Exhibition Estia Pilion, Greece

2024 «Vinum Divinum» Hermit Space Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022 Exhibition Hall "Union of Artists of Georgia", Tbilisi, Georgia

2019 Mercedes-Benz, Moscow, Russia

Group

2025 Red Dot Miami, World Wide Art Gallery, Miami, USA

2025 De Arte Palma di Montechiaro, Italy

2025 L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles, USA

2024 1st International Biennial De Arte, Palma di Montechiaro, Italy

2024 «Abstract Art» Royal Blue Gallery, London, Great Britain

2024 REALM at Holy Art Gallery in London, Great Britain

2023 "Art Gallery" Bodrum, Turkey

2023 «Art-Contact» Istanbul, Turkey

2023 «Spring» "Union of Artists of Georgia", Tbilisi, Georgia

Education

2025 – "Professional Introduction to International Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art"

2023 – School of Artistic Communication at the Institute of Mediterranean Culture, Athens, Greece

1998-2003 University of Cultural History (UNIC), Culturologist, Art Management, Moscow, Russia

1998-2002 Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia


Paintings

In these works, fragments of text, words and letters accumulate through layered gestures and collage-like compositions, forming dense fields of signs. Language gradually loses its communicative function and begins to operate as a visual system — a rhythm, a structure, a trace of thought in motion. The surface develops through continuous layering: writing appears, fades and re-emerges beneath new marks, evolving into complex visual fields that resemble maps of attention and memory.


Current Research

These projects form an ongoing artistic research. They are developed through painting, installation and augmented reality, evolving across exhibitions, site-specific realizations and new iterations.

The following projects constitute the core of my ongoing artistic research. Each investigates a different dimension of perception through installation, painting and augmented reality, while contributing to a single evolving body of work.

"Project proposal, 2026"

“ATTENTION"

We rarely notice attention itself — yet it determines what becomes visible, meaningful and real. What we focus on takes shape and form; what falls outside that focus ceases to exist in lived experience.

The installation places the viewer inside a layered structure of suspended acrylic panels carrying fragments of text, letters and signs that appear and dissolve depending on where you stand. No single reading is possible — each path through the space creates its own sequence of meaning. Augmented reality adds further layers, making visible what the naked eye cannot hold.

The work turns attention from an invisible function of consciousness into an object of investigation: how does the act of selecting, excluding and focusing construct the reality we inhabit?

"Project proposal, 2025"

"SUPRA"

Meaning emerges through shared presence — not in isolation, but around a common table. The Georgian tradition of supra, preserved through centuries and still alive today, is a culture of collective attention: people gather not simply to eat, but to listen, speak and hold one another's presence.

A transparent table reflects the viewer, drawing them into the work as a participant. Augmented reality layers Georgian letters falling and dissolving into the air — traces of vanishing attention or slipping meaning.

At a moment when consciousness is increasingly fragmented by digital environments, the project asks: what happens to meaning when attention becomes collective and intentional?becomes collective and intentional?

"Project proposal, 2026"

"MEMORY"

Memory is not retrieved — it is reconstructed. Each time we return to the past, we inevitably alter it: adding new interpretations, contexts and emotional connections.

The accumulated layers of meaning in our consciousness resemble smouldering embers — we feel their weight, their slow burning, and we carefully tend even our most painful memories, as though they define us.

The installation reveals how the past exists not in a single version, but in constantly shifting interpretations that shape our present. And reminds us: we can rewrite our past — right here, in this moment — and set ourselves free.

Artist Statement

My practice investigates how language, ritual, attention and memory shape human perception.

Working across painting, installation and augmented reality, I explore the structures that precede meaning and make experience possible. Rather than treating language as a system of communication, I approach it as a visual and cognitive architecture through which perception, memory and cultural experience are formed.

Each project becomes part of an ongoing artistic research that unfolds through different media while remaining centered on the same fundamental questions.

Publications

2026 Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art catalog 2026, Spain

2025 Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art magazine, Spain

2024 AT.ge magazine — Article about the exhibition "Vinum Divinum", Tbilisi, Georgia

Contact

For exhibition inquiries, collaborations, publications,

or research projects, please get in touch.

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Based in Georgia. Working internationally.