Interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher
HOW IS REALITY CONTINUOUSLY ASSEMBLED?

Before Meaning
100Х100
2026

Bifurcation Point
100Х100
2025

White Noise
100Х100
2025

Entropy of Thought
100Х100
2025

Echoes of Attention
50Х50
2025

Birth of Meaning
50Х50
2025

Echoes of Attention 2
50Х50
2025
I explore reality as a continuous process of assembly, focusing on the mechanisms through which this process takes place: language, memory, the process of thinking, perception, and attention.
I am also interested in the nature of connections — in how separate elements enter into relationships and, by influencing one another, form more complex structures: from internal processes of thinking and perception to the relationship between the individual and society.
We tend to perceive reality as something already existing, something given to us from the outside. I am interested instead in how the reality we experience takes shape: how separate signals, sensations, memories, signs, and inner states connect with one another and gradually acquire form and meaning.
Language enters my practice through the sign as a stable symbol capable of carrying and transmitting meaning. The Georgian alphabet holds a particular place in my work. I use it not so much as a writing system or a cultural image, but as a visual structure. Freed from the necessity of being read, the sign exists at the threshold between form and meaning in a state where meaning has not yet become fixed.
Memory interests me not as an archive of stored information, but as a process of reconstruction that takes place anew in the present moment. Remembering does not simply retrieve the past; it reassembles it from fragments, transforming it through new experiences, knowledge, and our present state. In this way, the past continually participates in shaping the reality of the present.
The process of thinking is explored through thought-forms that emerge before meaning is fully formed or articulated in words. I am interested in the state in which thought is already beginning to take form but remains open to multiple possible meanings a space before definition, where connections are only beginning to emerge and can still take different configurations.
Perception, for me, is not a passive reflection of the external world, but a process through which experience is continuously assembled from multiple fragments and signals. We do not simply register what happens around us; we connect, distinguish, complete, and interpret.
Attention is both a resource of presence and an instrument involved in shaping our inner reality. What we repeatedly direct our attention toward — through interest, habit, or fear gradually occupies more space within our consciousness.
From this emerges what I call an “ecology of mind”: a conscious relationship with our own attention, its direction, and what we allow to shape our inner space.
I am also interested in certain ideas from contemporary science and philosophy not as explanations of art, but as different ways of approaching questions about the nature of reality. In particular, concepts such as superposition and interconnectedness allow me to consider reality not as a completed state, but as a field of possible relationships in which meaning emerges through interaction.
My intention is not to illustrate these ideas. Through painting, objects, installation, transparent materials, light, text, and augmented reality, I create situations in which the processes of forming connections and meaning can themselves become perceptible and experienced.
Fragments, signs, layers, ruptures, and overlaps do not resolve into a single predetermined interpretation. The viewer enters the process, establishing connections between elements and participating in the formation of meaning.
I am interested in the moment when reality has not yet become something fully defined when it is emerging, connecting, acquiring meaning, and becoming open to being assembled again.
My research focuses on five interconnected processes:
LANGUAGE How signs become meaning.
MEMORY How the past is reconstructed in the present.
THINKING How thought takes form before meaning.
PERCEPTION How we assemble what we experience as reality.
ATTENTION How what we focus on shapes our inner reality.
These processes constantly interact and influence one another.
I am interested in how connections are formed within the individual, between people, and between the individual and society.
Together, these processes form what we experience as reality.
Painting allows me to explore states before meaning becomes fixed.
Signs, fragments, gestures, layers, and erased traces form connections without resolving into a single image or interpretation. The work remains open — meaning emerges through the relationships between its elements and through the viewer’s perception.



Each project focuses on a particular aspect of my broader research into how reality is continuously assembled.
The projects develop independently while remaining connected through a shared field of inquiry.
Three Ongoing Investigations
Ecology of Attention

"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 attention weave scattered fragments of experience into the lived pattern of reality?
Collective Meaning

"Project proposal, 2025"
"SUPRA"
Supra explores collective attention as a condition for the emergence of shared reality.
The project takes the Georgian tradition of the supra as its point of departure. Rather than approaching it as an ethnographic ritual, I am interested in its capacity to preserve something that is gradually disappearing from contemporary culture: a space of shared attention.
In an age when attention has become one of our most limited resources—constantly fragmented by digital technologies and the acceleration of everyday life—the supra offers a different experience of time. It slows perception, brings people back into the present moment, and creates the conditions for direct human encounter, where attention no longer belongs to the individual alone but becomes collective.
Within this shared field of attention, trust, memory, meaning, and a sense of belonging begin to emerge. Individual experiences no longer remain isolated; they become connected, gradually forming a shared lived experience. I understand attention not only as a cognitive resource, but as the connective force that links scattered fragments of human experience, weaving them into the pattern of lived reality.
The installation combines transparent materials, light, text, and augmented reality to create a layered environment in which viewers become participants rather than observers. Instead of representing collective attention, the work invites it to be experienced directly—as a form of shared presence through which a common reality can emerge.
Memory as Reconstruction

"Project proposal, 2026"
"Memory "
Memory explores memory not as a repository of the past, but as a continuous process through which reality is reconstructed.
Contemporary neuroscience suggests that remembering is not the retrieval of a fixed event, but its reconstruction each time it is recalled. The past does not return unchanged; it is continuously rewritten in the present, shaped by new knowledge, emotions, imagination, and experience. Memory therefore becomes not an archive, but a living process through which meaning is constantly reconfigured.
I approach memory as one of the fundamental forces involved in the continuous assembly of lived reality. Every present moment reshapes our understanding of the past while simultaneously influencing how we imagine the future. In this process, every act of remembering inevitably contains elements of imagination, uncertainty, and choice.
The works in this series are constructed from fragments, transparent layers, text, light, and augmented reality. Rather than forming a single fixed narrative, these elements remain open to multiple possible connections. Just as consciousness continuously reconstructs memory from scattered traces, viewers become participants in a process where meaning gradually emerges through the relationships they establish.
For me, memory is not an attempt to preserve the past, but the mind's capacity to continuously reassemble reality. The artwork becomes a space in which this ongoing process can be experienced rather than simply represented.
Gala Reya is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Her practice explores reality as a continuous process of assembly, focusing on language, memory, thinking, perception, attention, and the connections that emerge between them.
Working across painting, installation, objects, and augmented reality, she investigates states in which meaning is still forming and remains open to multiple interpretations. The Georgian alphabet appears throughout her practice as a visual system in which signs can exist between form and meaning.
Her research moves between individual and collective experience, exploring how internal processes and relationships with others participate in shaping lived reality.
Gala Reya studied Cultural Studies and later completed the Art & Science program at ITMO University. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Georgia, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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
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
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
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
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Based in Georgia. Working internationally.
Gala Reyа