COLOURS
Collect Art Gallery, Tbilisi GE
COLOURS is an online exhibition dedicated to what and how we see the colors, from the different eyes of artists, the fascinating elements of their works, and the expression or provocation of mood and emotion.
Art is a field that enables people to express themselves in a way that showcases their personalities and one of the unique properties of life is its color. Our eye has three types of color receptors: red, green, and blue. But how do we see the amazing kaleidoscope of other colors that make up our world? Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye: that's the objective definition. But in art design, color has a slew of attributes that are primarily subjective. Those include characteristics such as harmony — when two or more colors are brought together and produce a satisfying effective response; and temperature — a blue is considered warm or cool depending on whether it leans towards purple or green and a red whether it leans towards yellow or blue.
Online Exhibition
Sat, 09/10/2022 - Mon, 10/10/2022
Chrysanthi Maggidis’s artwork engages with COLOURS through an understanding of colour that extends beyond its visual or decorative qualities. Within the series, colour becomes a subjective and psychological language through which experiences of injury, recovery, identity, and self-perception are expressed. Although the palette is often vibrant, luminous, and seemingly joyful, these qualities are deliberately complicated by the emotional states embodied within the figures. Color does not simply describe what is seen; it reflects what is felt, allowing the visual experience of the work to shift between attraction and unease, vitality and vulnerability.
This tension is central to the experience of recovery explored throughout the series. Rather than harmonising, colours frequently collide and compete, occupying the same space in much the same way that conflicting emotional states can coexist within the individual.
Hope can exist alongside fear, strength alongside vulnerability, and acceptance alongside frustration. The resulting chromatic intensity creates a form of “silent noise,” in which colour communicates simultaneously on emotional and perceptual levels. What initially appears bright or optimistic gradually reveals a more complex psychological landscape, challenging the viewer’s instinct to associate particular colours with fixed emotional meanings.
In this sense, her artwork contributes to COLOURS by questioning the distinction between how colour is objectively perceived and how it is subjectively experienced. The works demonstrate that colour can carry contradiction, memory, and psychological tension, becoming inseparable from the body and the experience it represents. Within the series, colour occupies the same uncertain territory as the figures themselves: between physical and psychological states, limitation and freedom, past and present. It is through this unresolved interplay that colour becomes not merely something the viewer sees, but something the viewer experiences.
