#Georgia #Belgium, Tamo Jugeli: I’d do it all again, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, May 15 – July 5,2025

Installation view, Tamo Jugeli: I'd do it all again, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2025. Photo: Fabrice Schneider

“Gladstone Brussels is pleased to present I’d do it all again, an exhibition by Georgian artist, Tamo Jugeli. In this new series of paintings, the artist further explores her intuitive drive to reveal the possibilities contained within composition, color, and form when we are released from the burden of explication. Liberated from the strictures of fixed meaning, Jugeli’s work negotiates painting both as an act in and of itself, and as a non-didactive communicative device. In canvases that record a succession of the uncalculated but serendipitous harmonies borne from process, the artist addresses painting as a site that ponders states of becoming in both life and art.

Made without the use of preparatory drawings or studies, Jugeli’s work is guided by instinct, each painting newly alive at the moment of its creation. Made in semi-discrete series that are organized by indices of time and place, the works here retain a familial relationship, a temporal and conceptual kinship that serves as a unifying factor. Charting feeling, impulse, and the artist’s instinctual understanding of composition, the paintings in each series are accomplices to one another, each of them indicating the specificity of the moment in which they were made. Gesturing towards perspective but never remaining there long, Jugeli’s paintings oscillate between pure abstraction and moments when seemingly familiar signifiers peak through. Here we imagine a cherry, an animal, the fleshy flash of a limb, Persephone’s pomegranate; each inference is a reminder of our own psychological need for symbolic order, our reliance of the scaffolds of language even when we are engaged in moments of pure visual pleasure.”

Installation view, Tamo Jugeli: I'd do it all again, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2025. Photo: Fabrice Schneider