Mist and Memory on Canvas in Andro Wekua’s Imagined Black Sea

A painting that took a decade to complete stands at the heart of Andro Wekua’s London exhibition, its pastel haze and carved shapes evoking a landscape both familiar and elusive. Wekua’s works often blur the line between place and memory, layering colors and forms until the scene feels like a recollection glimpsed through fog. Raised in Sukhumi, Georgia, Wekua left his home as a teenager amid conflict and loss—a history that lingers in his art’s sense of absence and longing. Instead of direct autobiography, his paintings offer fragments: a horizon echoing the Black Sea, faces that are more self-reflection than portrait. Wekua’s process is slow and instinctive, each piece evolving over months or years, shaped by oil, charcoal, and the artist’s shifting sense of self. His canvases become palimpsests of time, where personal history and cultural memory merge, never quite settling into a single story. In Wekua’s world, the past is never fixed—it drifts, reshaped by every brushstroke and every act of remembering. #AndroWekua #ContemporaryArt #CulturalMemory #Culture