Ana Gzirishvili

For her solo exhibition at Sculpture Center, Ana Gzirishvili presents a new group of sculptures made from expanses of leather that she wets, stretches, and tightly wraps around handmade frames and across assemblages. Once dry, she peels them from their molds, resulting in stiff reliefs that register partial impressions. Recent research has led the artist to the “skin ego,” a psychoanalytic idea elaborated by Didier Anzieu (1923-1999) that compares the physical containment of the body (under skin) to the psychic containment of the self. Her works exhibited at SculptureCenter processes this idea in the form of tough animal skins (and, newly, light-colored fabrics) that wind and wrap around unseen cores, that pick up traces of things, and convey a sensation of overuse, collapse, and wear—the self-protective sensing membrane breached, exposed, and altered by its environment.

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