Painting Artwork by Gela Mikava mixed media on linen canvas.
This work does not merely depict chaos—it lives within it. Displaced Realities is an exploration of the precariousness of human experience, where what appears stable is constantly on the verge of collapse. It speaks to the fragility of structures—mental, physical, societal—that we rely on to define our place in the world. The composition fractures time and perception, reflecting a deep internal dissonance where the body and mind fall out of rhythm with their environment.

Here, reality is never fixed; it is fluid, unsettled, and endlessly reconfigured. The figures—often distorted, incomplete, or caught in ambiguous motion—represent the tension between presence and absence, identity and dissolution. They inhabit a space that is both familiar and alien, echoing the psychological states of displacement, dissociation, and longing for coherence.

The painting captures the ceaseless transformation of the human con