Paris gallery tribute display featuring artist Salome Jokhadze
Salome Jokhadze, 'Untitled', from the series 'This Is Not a Costume', 2019. Photo via Galerie Sultana press release.
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Works by artist Salome Jokhadze are part of a group display paying homage to American artist Henry Darger at Galerie Sultana in Paris, with the creative involved in the show titled Abbieannian Novlangue.
Marking a tribute to the legacy of the posthumously discovered 20th century artist and author, the exhibition is seen as the first event of a series dedicated to the importance of his work for contemporary art.
Works by eight emerging artists have been curated by Julia Marchand for the selection, with references and nods to the fantasy protagonists found in Darger's vast, if controversial, works in both literature and visual art.
The selected creatives have drawn on the background of his work, including the "gripping tale" of The Story of the Vivian Girls, a manuscript he left behind after his death in 1973. Darger's fiction reflected hardships of his youth years - much of it spent without parents after their deaths.
[The featured artists] are aged between 22 and 34 and reside mainly in Europe, with the exception of Salome Jokhadze, a young Georgian artist, whose painting represents the strange, diminutive silhouette of a fabulous mystical girl saint" - Julia Marchand
Based in Tbilisi, Jokhadze graduated from the Visual Arts, Architecture and Design School (VAADS) of Tbilisi's Free University and did a two-month residency in Düsseldorf last year.
She has previously been part of displays in Paris and Frankfurt, exhibiting at the French capital's Palais de Tokyo venue in 2017 and the German city's Museum Angewandte Kunst in 2018, as part of a group show involving Georgian artists.
The artist also organised a group display for the Tbilisi Art Fair in 2018 and curated a show of VAADS students for an anniversary Artisterium International Contemporary Art Exhibition in the capital city the same year.
The Galerie Sultana exhibition launched on February 15 and is set to run through April 11.