Nika Koplatadze

Espacio Unión presents Miwa by Nika Koplatadze. Miwa (მიწა), a Georgian word meaning earth and soil, names not a place but a condition of becoming. Written here in the Latin alphabet, the word holds a slight displacement, reflecting the exhibition’s refusal to anchor itself to a fixed geography. What emerges instead is a terrain shaped by memory, material, and relational structures rather than cartographic location.

Notably, the human figure is absent in Miwa. Yet the works are far from empty. Trees, mountains, flowers, the moon, and the sun appear as individual presences, each with its own identity, psychology, and internal logic. These are more than landscapes—they are ecosystems felt from within. Nature is neither backdrop nor resource, but a living, organizing intelligence.

Painting intersects with object, sculpture, and installation through a process of layered construction. Tempera, applied by touch in thin, fluid layers, preserves the integrity of the pigment’s original color, emphasizing intimacy and tactility. Sculptural works draw on traditional Mexican craft techniques and organic materials, including soil gathered from different regions, flowers, seeds, plant matter, and pineapple skin—each carrying the temporal weight of centuries of living processes.

Wholeness becomes the exhibition’s central inquiry. Logic is revealed in natural formations, such as the geometric scales of a pangolin, the aggregation of leaves into a tree, and the way singular elements assemble into larger coherent bodies. This structural principle extends into the social realm: collectivity emerges not through sameness, but through the alignment of distinct parts under shared conditions of meaning, identity, or belief.Miwa reinterprets macro-ecosystems as intimate systems of relation, asking how landscapes shape us, how complexity sustains life, and how wholeness might be achieved while remaining irreducibly plural.

— Charles Moore, curator.

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