Irina Gabiani is a contemporary artist whose work explores interconnectedness, perception and the construction of reality. Growing up in Soviet-occupied Georgia, she experienced how illusion and fabricated narratives can reshape collective vision, influencing the way reality is perceived and understood. According to the artist, Universe functions as an interconnected organism, of which we and everything around us are a part.

Her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, collage, video art and installation, exploring the dialogue between the micro and macro worlds. Through her work, Gabiani investigates the fluid boundaries between the individual and the universe, revealing invisible connections that shape our understanding of existence.

She frequently transforms images from contemporary magazines, using them as fragments of collective memory and traces of specific historical moments. Through drawing interventions and the extension of motifs across figures and surfaces, she creates visual chains and cyclical structures where images evolve into new narratives, connecting past and present.