Gala Reyа

Gala Reya is a visual artist whose practice examines
how attention, memory and language actively shape lived reality.

Through painting, text and participatory structures,
she explores perception as an ongoing act of construction.

Selected Works
Polysemy” Series
Between Meanings
50Х50
2025
Convergence of Meanings
50Х50
2025
"Structures of Connection" Series
Echoes of Attention
50Х50
2025
Birth of Meaning
50Х50
2025
Echoes of Attention 2
50Х50
2025
"Field of Confusion" Series
Bifurcation Point
100Х100
2025
White Noise
100Х100
2025
Entropy of Thought
100Х100
2025
Methods
Paintings
These works explore language not as a vehicle for communication but as a system that shapes perception, memory and meaning. Through textual structures, semantic layering and visual arrangements, they examine how interpretation participates in the construction of reality.
My artistic practice engages with language as both a visual and cognitive structure. In the paintings, fragments of text, words, and letters accumulate through layered gestures and collage-like compositions, forming dense fields of signs. Within this process language gradually loses its communicative function and begins to operate as a visual system — a rhythm, a structure, and a trace of thought in motion.
The surface of each work develops through continuous layering: fragments of writing appear, fade, and re-emerge beneath new marks. Through a collage-based process of assembling, disrupting, and recombining textual elements, the image evolves into complex visual fields that resemble maps of attention and memory.

Research Projects
Alongside painting, the practice expands into spatial forms and digital media. Certain ideas move beyond the surface of the canvas and take shape as installation concepts in which textual elements and signs form environments that viewers can physically encounter and navigate.
Another direction explores the use of augmented reality. Digital layers of text and symbols are superimposed onto physical space, generating additional levels of perception and extending the relationship between language, image, and attention.
Some of these projects currently exist as conceptual proposals and prototypes, yet they continue the broader investigation of language as a structure of perception, translating it from the pictorial surface into spatial and media-based environments.
“ATTENTION"
An installation investigating attention as a generative force that shapes experience. Through shifting layers of visibility and obscurity, the project reveals how selective attention determines what becomes meaningful, memorable and real.”
"SUPRA"
A participatory installation exploring collective attention as a shared space where meaning emerges through interaction. Inspired by the Georgian supra tradition, the project examines how social rituals shape perception and construct temporary realities.
"MEMORY"
A spatial project examining memory as an ongoing process of reconstruction rather than a fixed archive. Layered narratives and fragmented traces expose how recollection continuously reshapes both the past and the present.
"For me, experimentation is not just a method, but the very essence of creativity. It allows you to go beyond conventions, discover new possibilities, and make visible what seemed invisible."
Artist Statement
My practice begins with a simple observation: reality is not merely perceived but continuously constructed.
I am interested in the processes through which attention selects, memory reorganizes and language interprets experience. Rather than treating perception as a neutral reflection of the world, I approach it as an active system that produces meaning, shapes identity and influences behavior.
Working across painting, text, installation and participatory structures, I develop projects that investigate how experiences become narratives and how narratives, in turn, reshape lived reality. Many of my works examine the instability of memory, the role of interpretation and the mechanisms through which individual and collective realities are formed.
My recent research focuses on attention as a generative force. Attention determines what becomes visible, meaningful and memorable; it is both a cognitive process and a cultural infrastructure. Through visual and conceptual frameworks, I explore how shifts in attention can alter perception, reorganize memory and open alternative ways of understanding experience.
I see artistic practice as a space where these mechanisms can be observed, questioned and reconfigured. Rather than presenting fixed meanings, my work creates conditions in which meaning emerges through interaction, interpretation and participation.
BIO
Gala Reya is a visual artist working across painting, text, installation and participatory formats. Her practice explores the mechanisms through which attention, memory and language shape lived experience and influence the construction of reality.
Her current body of work emerged following a cultural and linguistic transition in 2022, which prompted an ongoing investigation into how meaning is formed, interpreted and transformed across different contexts. Drawing on conceptual research, cognitive science and systems thinking, Reya develops projects that examine perception as an active process rather than a passive reception of the world.
Her works often combine visual structures, textual elements and audience participation, inviting viewers to become co-producers of meaning. Based in Georgia, she works internationally through exhibitions, publications and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Professional Membership
Associazione La Via dell’Arte, Italy (since 2025)
Union of Artists of Georgia (since 2019)
Eurasian Union of Artists (since 2021)
Moscow Union of Artists (since 2013)
Selected exhibitions:
Solo
2026 Collaboration Exhibition "Vinum Divinum" Estia Pilion, Greece (upcoming)
2024 «Vinum Divinum» Hermit Space Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 Exhibition Hall "Union of Artists of Georgia", Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Mercedes-Benz, Moscow, Russia
Group
2025 Red Dot Miami, World Wide Art Gallery, Miami, USA
2025 De Arte Palma di Montechiaro, Italy
2025 L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles, USA
2024 1st International Biennial De Arte, Palma di Montechiaro, Italy
2024 «Abstract Art» Royal Blue Gallery, London, Great Britain
2024 REALM at Holy Art Gallery in London, Great Britain
2023 "Art Gallery" Bodrum, Turkey
2023 «Art-Contact» Istanbul, Turkey
2023 «Spring» "Union of Artists of Georgia", Tbilisi, Georgia
Education:

2025 – "Professional Introduction to International "Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art"
2023 – School of Artistic Communication at the Institute of Mediterranean Culture, Athens, Greece
1998-2003 University of Cultural History (UNIC), Culturologist, Art Management, Moscow, Russia
1998-2002 Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
2005-2011 Worked as an art manager
Publications
2026 Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art catalog 2026, Spain
2025 Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art magazine, Spain
2024 AT.ge magazine — Article about the exhibition "Vinum Divinum", Tbilisi, Georgia
Contact
For exhibition inquiries, collaborations, publications,
or research projects, please get in touch.
Email
Social Media
Based in Georgia. Working internationally.