Following her residency this summer at Villa Atrata, Elené Shatberashvili (b. 1990, Tbilisi, Georgia) presents a selection of recent paintings and drawings in Atrata’s gallery overlooking the gardens of Palais Royal. Her luminous compositions incorporate the deep shadows of the brightest season. Working in oil, the artist’s intimately sized canvases are dynamic studies of light and form. Likewise, her works in charcoal on paper are as much a research of the precious act of paying attention as they are of her recurring motifs: circles, eggs, flowers, ladders and mirrors.

With an intimate concern for fleeting cycles of nature and belief, Shatberashvili plunges into the memory of landscape and place. A vase of cut flowers recalls a walk through a field, as a playfully arranged tabletop is an uncanny trace of a meal with friends. At Atrata, a lingering musicality unites the selection of Shatberashvili’s paintings and drawings. Each work plays with the possibilities of the others. 

After Shatberashvili’s studies in architecture, she pursued painting at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. The artist continues to live and work in the French capital. This is her first exhibition at Atrata. Shatberashvili’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at gb agency, Paris (2023). Her recent group exhibitions include Sanctuary at LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2024); Host, curated by Lisa Offermann, at Galerie Frank Elbaz (2024); The Painting Show at Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi (2023); Immortelle at MO.CO, Montpellier (2023); Cache-cache at Perrotin, Paris (2023); Entre tes yeux et les images que j’y vois at Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2022); and Space and Place at EIGEN + ART, Leipzig (2021).