Tamuna Sirbiladzeâs paintings, fast, expressionistic canvases depicting abstract shapes and naked female figures in the midst of bodily functions, convey an intimate, unavoidable physicality.
Born in Georgia and based in Vienna, Sirbiladze could be said to be channelling some of the Viennese Actionistsâ subversive spirit. She paints unromanticised images of faceless women naked, bleeding, defecating and vomiting, a kind of scrapbook of acts that are not particularly taboo now but arenât the most obvious subjects for artists to explore in their works. Thereâs a raw frankness to her characters that goes beyond their crude, puerile figuration; they at once conflate the imagery of pornography and primeval ritual within scenes that hint at the diaristic and at a wide range of emotional states.
