Every object in the sky looks like a star

The exhibition Every Object in the Sky Looks Like a Star presents the latest research by Irina Gabiani and unfolds as a symbolic and politically conscious investigation into the mechanisms of power, illusion, and the construction of reality.

The idea behind the exhibition takes shape from the artist’s perspective on the political situation in Georgia. However, this starting point quickly expands into a more universal dimension, in which local tensions are reflected within a global reality, revealing mechanisms of power and authoritarianism operating on a planetary scale.

In the artist’s works, nature is rewritten as a symbolic space where themes of control, excess, value, and spectacle emerge. Through the fusion of collage, painting, and drawing, Gabiani constructs layered worlds in which illusion becomes both language and structure.

The message remains essential and universal:
neither nature nor people can be possessed.
Power is fragile.
Freedom exists only where resistance begins.