Gallery "Vanda" presents Nini Jaliashvili's solo exhibition False Memory Syndrome.
The young artist's work is distinguished by its depth, expressiveness, dynamism, and visual richness. The exhibition marks an important stage in the artist's creative development and offers an engaging showcase for both professionals and the broader audience.
The exposition will feature her recent works, which clearly demonstrate the artist's individual signature and a liberated approach to contemporary aesthetics.
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False memory is conceived by the artist as the manifestation and surfacing of an inner stream of images and narratives. The origin of memory is inaccessible; it emerges from an uncertain place and attempts to objectify, manifest, and materialize itself.
The artist does not work with personal memories. Her subject of interest is the feeling and information stemming from collective memory. They carry an intrinsic link to what is already deeply embedded—something that lacks a specific author and has no precise beginning. It is precisely this primordial state that represents truth for the author: an unshared, untouched, and subconscious baseline that precedes any rationalization or materialization. Here, the transformation of thought is always followed by form. However, form can never fully coincide with its original source. In this process, memory seems to trick itself—not intentionally, but inevitably. It is precisely within this mismatch—between the original source and its expression—that the "false" is born.
Falseness is neither a positive nor a negative state. It is a necessary field without which memory could not become visible. In this sense, false memory represents not a defect or a diagnosis, but rather the only possible path through which the true, untouched original source can manifest as form.
The plots and forms the artist revolves around are manifestations of imagination. On canvas, the image often appears in a direct, crude, and intentionally unrefined manner; yet within this hidden and raw structure, one can read the very memory whose recognition and reflection form the author's primary objective. This is an attempt not to restore memory, but to explore the links that create emotion, form, and the tense space that exists between them.
Opening: Friday, January 30, 18:00
Address: 14 Daniel Chonkadze Street, Tbilisi
