Teo Burki
Teo Burki
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T-Shirt Avatar 5, 2020
Acrylic on paper
42 x 30 cm
About this Work
In the T-Shirt Avatars series, created during the 2020 lockdown, Burki lifts and transforms portraits of figures from social networks through the medium of acrylic. The blurred layers of the canvas mimic and paradoxically counter the glitches of virtuality. These portraits capture the domestic sublime, dissolving into a warm abstraction that re-inserts vitality into the images by reversing the process by which they became virtual, while still retaining a sentiment of isolation.
About Teo Burki
Teo Burki gained her BA from Tbilisi Academy of Arts, before continuing her studies at LUCA School of Arts. In 2020, she completed her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Burki’s practice centres on contemporary painting, mixing abstract expressionist and figurative modes within the conceptual framework of investigating random, everyday pop-up images. The multimedia artist works across painting, drawing and moving image, and is also a practising curator, employing interdisciplinary thinking to various international projects and exhibitions, across predominantly Georgia, Belgium and the UK.
Through her practice, Burki investigates various gestures, employing both abstract expressionist and figurative modes to create movement and fluidity in her imagery. Often, she pulls from images she has experienced online, building these into paintings that interrogate virtuality in a manual domain. She describes this territory as “the in-between”, and reinforces this perception through the painterly techniques she engages, building a floating, ephemeral language of her own.
Education
2018-2020 University of Arts London UAL Central Saint Martins CSM MA Fine Art
2010-2011 LUCA- Sint-Lukas Brussels School of Arts and Design, Transmedia postgraduate course /Arts+Media+Design/ Semester
2002-2007 Tbilisi State Academy of Arts Fine Arts /Equals MA
2002-2007 Tbilisi State University, Constitutional and Administrative Law /Equals MA
Selected Exhibitions
2020
Art & Freedom / Civil Rights In Time of Crisis, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Residency/ Group Show, Ge
Tbilisi Online Biennale, Virtual Residency
Together (Two Meters Apart), Harwich, UK, Group exhibition
UAL Virtual Graduate Showcase @ UAL/ CSM website
Knot with ER, Screening@ Lux Moving Image website
A man with a Webcam/Digital Oasis, ‘Inbetweenconditions’, Virtual show, Ge
Becomings _ APT Gallery, Group show, LND, UK
2019
Carnival of Contemplation, Dalston Gallery, Group Show, LND, UK
Play, Heath Street Baptist Church, Group Exhibition LND, UK
We are Here we are _ Interim Show, Apiary Studios, LND, UK
Knock the wall _ ‘Tate Exchange’, Tate Modern, LND, UK.
2017
Green fest _ Festival Participant, Rustavi, GE
2016
Avatar- YES _ Contemporary Art Space, Group Show, Batumi, GE
2015
“Tbilisi Migrant Stories _ City Rhythms” GEOAIR ARCHIDROME,
‘Patara Gallery’_ Experimental
Anthropologic Film workshop, Ge/UK
2011
Sound and Color - Multimedia exhibition, Tbilisi Conservatoire Grand Hall,GE
2002
Summer Exhibition, Georgian National Gallery, Group Exhibition, GE