VISUAL ARTIST LANA JOKHADZE

Lana Jokhadze: Memories That May Have Been Dreams | Antakly Projects
Lana Jokhadze, Georgia
Antakly Projects  ·  Visual Art  ·  Tbilisi

Lana Jokhadze

Memories That May Have Been Dreams

Graphic designer and visual artist. Born in Tbilisi, 1994. Left a stable career in 2019 to become the artist she needed to be. That was the bravest decision of her life.

Tbilisi, Georgia Graphic Design  ·  Photography  ·  Surrealism Behance  ·  Digital Art
Lana Jokhadze's work carries the quality of a memory you cannot verify. You are not sure if it happened or if you dreamed it. She says the same thing about her own childhood.

Lana Jokhadze was born in Tbilisi on the 12th of August 1994. Her childhood was not a fairy tale, and she has memories she cannot tell from dreams. A difficult childhood was followed by a difficult adulthood, and finally all the emotions gathered together had a great influence on her art.

She is a graphic designer and visual artist, but this has not always been her primary profession. It was the beginning of summer 2019 when she realised she had to change her job and take the first steps into a radically different field. Leaving her job was very difficult. It was also the bravest decision of her life, and the right one. She is now, in her own words, a happy designer, the kind of artist she likes, a lot.

She has been influenced by surrealist painters since childhood, and when she looks at surrealist paintings from the 14th and 18th centuries she thinks it was pure genius, and that creating surrealism digitally is, by comparison, a simple process. She is a careful craftsperson and a precise thinker. The work is never accidental, even when it looks like it could be.

Lana Jokhadze photography, Tbilisi © Lana Jokhadze
"My childhood was not a fairy tale and I have some memories which I cannot remember if they were a dream or if they really happened."
Lana Jokhadze
The conversation
01

Tell us about your greatest inspirations and influences.

The biggest influence on me is music. When I listen to music, so many different layers open up in my mind. I don't know when I discovered this connection between myself and music.

Just a few days ago I was packing old things and I found a letter I had written to my father when I was 13 years old. He wrote back to me that if you listen to classical music sometimes, you will not show much talent. I had not remembered this letter.

02

How has technology affected your work as a creative?

When I look at surrealist paintings from the 14th or 18th century, I realise it was just genius, and that creating surrealism digitally is a simple process by comparison. I obviously have more capabilities now, more technical support. However, I could not say that all this affects my creativity or has any decisive importance.

03

Tell us about your creative process.

It is a rather indefinite process. I completely lose track of time. Maybe what I want will come out in 15 minutes, or an hour, or it won't see the light of the sun. There was a case when I returned to the work after a week.

04

What do you think of the art world?

This is an industry that is constantly changing, influenced by the technologies and innovations we discussed. I think that art is a very broad concept and the perception of something as art is individual.

"Leaving my job was very difficult. It was also the bravest decision of my life, and the right one."
Lana Jokhadze

Stay curious,

Leila Antakly
Leila Antakly

Leila Antakly is the founder and editor of Antakly Projects, the independent cultural platform she launched in New York in 2003 as Ninu Nina. Syrian and Colombian, she began her career at Vogue Italia and has spent more than twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, photographers, and inspiring thinkers around the world.

https://www.ninunina.com/
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