Marusya Gdeto

Who am I.
I.
I am an artist.
I am a visual artist.
And I am also a sweet potato.
Kohlrabi.
A noodle soup.
A lost little frog.

Fear and fascination, terror and temptation, beauty and ugliness.
Turning myself inside out to be born anew.
Silent observation, the world under a microscope.
What does the last fallen leaf smell like?
What is the taste of an uninvited glance?
Of a long-awaited touch?
A world in fragments, exposed emotions.
My art is laughter through tears.
Creating a space for the unresolved, I allow something new to be born.

Once again, faced with the terror of incongruity, I chose to move toward it.
What does the field where contradictions coexist look like?

By embracing absurdity as a tool for self-expression, I began my dialogue with uncertainty.

Metaphor and the play of perception.
How does one feel connected to the world?
By taking it apart.

Balancing within the oscillations of a metamodernist system, I return to the simplicity of emotions in an attempt to make sense of life's chaos.
In striving to confront despair, I allow it to unfold, yielding to the emergence of beauty.

I am a self-taught artist born in St. Petersburg.
I never had any art schools or academies, personal drawing teachers in my life. I think this point had a strong effect on my art, because from the very beginning I have acted excluding all rules.

•5/03/2022 "Crossing" Group Exhibition, Georgia, Tbilisi
•9/12/2022 "Black&White" Group Exhibition, UGallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
•2023 Publication in the "Egalite" journal
•26/03/2023 "Threads of confluence" performance, Tbilisi, Georgia
•9/04/2023 "Exhibition #2", Secret Gallery, Tbilisi
•15/04/2023 "Forest Project" group exhibition, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
•20/04/2023 "Shape of the Forest" performance, Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
•29/07/2023 "Bourime" performance, Secret garden Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
•1/08/2023 "Bourime" performance, Maudi gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
•6/08/2023 "Communal steppes" solo exhibition, Ertad, Tbilisi, Georgia
•6/08/2023 "Communal steppes" performance, Ertad, Tbilisi, Georgia
•9/08/2023 "Bourime" performance, Ertad, Tbilisi, Georgia
•14/10/2023 "Breathing lessons" group exhibition, Roots Gallery, Piza, Italy
•29/10/2023 "Kids are seeds of a new hope" group exhibition, Secret Place, Tbilisi, Georgia
•27/10/2023 solo exhibition, Snobs bar, Tbilisi, Georgia
•24/11/2023 "Communal steppes" solo exhibition, Revolution, Tbilisi, Georgia
•27/11/2023 "The Snow Queen" performance, Space school, Tbilisi, Georgia
•10/02/2024 "Chinese New Year" acoustic evening, Paper ...