Gala Reyа


Interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher

How is reality assembled?


Selected Works

Polysemy” Series



Before Meaning

100Х100

2026

"Field of Confusion" Series

Bifurcation Point

100Х100

2025

White Noise

100Х100

2025

Entropy of Thought

100Х100

2025

"Structures of Connection" Series

Echoes of Attention

50Х50

2025

Birth of Meaning

50Х50

2025

Echoes of Attention 2

50Х50

2025

Artist Statement

I am interested not in reality itself, but in the continuous process through which it is assembled.

We tend to perceive the world as something objective and independent of our presence. Yet contemporary neuroscience suggests that perception is not a passive reflection of reality but an active process of constructing experience. Language does not merely describe the world; it shapes the architecture of thought. Memory does not preserve the past as a fixed archive but continuously reconstructs it in the present. From quantum physics, I draw not scientific explanations for art, but a philosophical perspective that allows reality to be understood as an open field of relationships emerging through interaction rather than as a fixed and completed state.

For me, these different fields of knowledge are not subjects of artistic representation but distinct ways of approaching the same question: How does experienced reality come into being?

At the center of my practice is attention. I understand attention not simply as the ability to concentrate, but as the fundamental force that connects scattered fragments of experience and weaves the pattern of lived reality. Perception, memory, language, imagination, bodily sensation, and internal mental states do not exist in isolation. Attention is what binds them together, determining which relationships emerge between them and, ultimately, which version of reality becomes our lived experience. This is why I speak of an ecology of attention—an inquiry into the conditions under which these connections arise, transform, or dissolve.

The Georgian alphabet occupies a unique place within my work. I am interested not in its semantic function or its cultural representation alone, but in its capacity to operate as a cognitive structure. I see its letters as visual carriers of ways of thinking—codes through which historical, cultural, and embodied experience are embedded not only in meaning but also in form. Released from the obligation to be read, these signs become autonomous elements in the ongoing construction of reality.

My artistic method is not to illustrate these ideas, but to create conditions in which they can be experienced. Working with painting, transparent materials, light, text, and augmented reality, I construct environments composed of fragments, ruptures, overlaps, and connections. Each work functions as a model of consciousness in which meaning does not pre-exist but emerges through the relationships between its elements.

I am interested not in the completed artwork, but in the formation of connections themselves. Rather than presenting a fixed interpretation, my works invite viewers to participate in the act of assembly, gradually connecting disparate elements into their own pattern of meaning. Just as consciousness continuously constructs lived reality, each work remains open to multiple possible configurations.

I do not seek to explain how the world is. I create situations in which the very process through which we continuously assemble our reality becomes perceptible.

Research Framework

My practice explores how lived reality is continuously assembled through the interaction of attention, perception, memory, language and imagination. Rather than treating these as separate subjects, I approach them as interconnected processes that shape human experience. My works create situations in which these relationships become perceptible, allowing viewers to experience reality not as a fixed condition but as an ongoing act of reconstruction.

Central Question

How is lived reality assembled?

Conceptual Ecology

LANGUAGE ↓

MEMORY →

ATTENTION

← PERCEPTION

↑ IMAGINATION

REALITY AS CONTINUOUS RECONSTRUCTION


Painting is where my research begins.

Through painting I investigate how fragments of perception gradually assemble into lived reality. Layers of text, gestures, erased marks and visual traces do not represent a finished image; they model the way consciousness continuously constructs experience.


Current Research

These projects constitute an ongoing artistic research into how lived reality is continuously assembled. Rather than functioning as independent works, they investigate different yet interconnected dimensions of the same inquiry—attention, memory, language, perception, and imagination. Through painting, installation, and augmented reality, each project explores a distinct aspect of this process while contributing to a single evolving body of research.y of work.

Three Ongoing Investigations

Ecology of Attention

"Project proposal, 2026"

“Attention"

We rarely notice attention itself — yet it determines what becomes visible, meaningful and real. What we focus on takes shape and form; what falls outside that focus ceases to exist in lived experience.

The installation places the viewer inside a layered structure of suspended acrylic panels carrying fragments of text, letters and signs that appear and dissolve depending on where you stand. No single reading is possible — each path through the space creates its own sequence of meaning. Augmented reality adds further layers, making visible what the naked eye cannot hold.

The work turns attention from an invisible function of consciousness into an object of investigation: How does attention weave scattered fragments of experience into the lived pattern of reality?

Collective Meaning

"Project proposal, 2025"

"SUPRA"

Supra explores collective attention as a condition for the emergence of shared reality.

The project takes the Georgian tradition of the supra as its point of departure. Rather than approaching it as an ethnographic ritual, I am interested in its capacity to preserve something that is gradually disappearing from contemporary culture: a space of shared attention.

In an age when attention has become one of our most limited resources—constantly fragmented by digital technologies and the acceleration of everyday life—the supra offers a different experience of time. It slows perception, brings people back into the present moment, and creates the conditions for direct human encounter, where attention no longer belongs to the individual alone but becomes collective.

Within this shared field of attention, trust, memory, meaning, and a sense of belonging begin to emerge. Individual experiences no longer remain isolated; they become connected, gradually forming a shared lived experience. I understand attention not only as a cognitive resource, but as the connective force that links scattered fragments of human experience, weaving them into the pattern of lived reality.

The installation combines transparent materials, light, text, and augmented reality to create a layered environment in which viewers become participants rather than observers. Instead of representing collective attention, the work invites it to be experienced directly—as a form of shared presence through which a common reality can emerge.

Memory as Reconstruction

"Project proposal, 2026"

"Memory "

Memory explores memory not as a repository of the past, but as a continuous process through which reality is reconstructed.

Contemporary neuroscience suggests that remembering is not the retrieval of a fixed event, but its reconstruction each time it is recalled. The past does not return unchanged; it is continuously rewritten in the present, shaped by new knowledge, emotions, imagination, and experience. Memory therefore becomes not an archive, but a living process through which meaning is constantly reconfigured.

I approach memory as one of the fundamental forces involved in the continuous assembly of lived reality. Every present moment reshapes our understanding of the past while simultaneously influencing how we imagine the future. In this process, every act of remembering inevitably contains elements of imagination, uncertainty, and choice.

The works in this series are constructed from fragments, transparent layers, text, light, and augmented reality. Rather than forming a single fixed narrative, these elements remain open to multiple possible connections. Just as consciousness continuously reconstructs memory from scattered traces, viewers become participants in a process where meaning gradually emerges through the relationships they establish.

For me, memory is not an attempt to preserve the past, but the mind's capacity to continuously reassemble reality. The artwork becomes a space in which this ongoing process can be experienced rather than simply represented.

Bio

Gala Reya is a contemporary artist living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia since 2022. She has maintained an active artistic practice since 2019.

Her practice explores the continuous assembly of lived reality through the interplay of attention, perception, memory, language, and imagination. Working across painting, installation, and augmented reality, she creates works in which viewers become active participants in the emergence of meaning.

Drawing inspiration from contemporary neuroscience, the philosophy of language, and conceptual ideas from quantum physics, Gala Reya approaches art as a space where the processes that shape human experience become perceptible—how perception is formed, how memory is reconstructed, and how connections emerge.

A significant aspect of her practice is the Georgian alphabet, which she approaches not as a writing system but as a cognitive architecture—a visual code capable of shaping ways of thinking and perception. Freed from their communicative function, letters become autonomous artistic elements existing at the threshold between image, rhythm, and meaning.

Gala Reya studied Cultural Studies, completed a course in Graphic Arts, and later completed the Art & Science program at ITMO University. Her work has been exhibited in Georgia, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Today, her practice continues to evolve as a long-term artistic research that brings together contemporary art, philosophy, and scientific models of human experience.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2026 Collaboration Exhibition Estia Pilion, Greece

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

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.

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Based in Georgia. Working internationally.