Davit Botch
MFA ’24 Fine Arts 2D
My artistic practice explores the delicate threshold between individual identity and collective belonging, a central space in both my lived experience and creative work. As an immigrant, I’ve often inhabited the in-between: between cultures, languages, memories, and meanings. My work gives form to this liminal zone, where personal introspection meets shared resonance.
Rooted in a lifelong pursuit of self-knowledge, my practice draws from nature, Indigenous traditions, mythology, and psychology to explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological dimensions of being. Growing up as a refugee in crisis-stricken Georgia and later navigating life as a queer immigrant in the U.S., I’ve been shaped by profound cultural and personal transitions. These experiences inform a visual language that blends abstraction and figuration, inviting inquiry into transformation, memory, and belonging.
Through symbolic materials – mirrors, natural textures, magnets, metal, and recycled canvas – I construct portals that invite reflection and reconnection. These tactile surfaces embody themes of duality: visibility and invisibility, attraction and repulsion, presence and absence.
Archetypes from mythology and psychology weave through my work, creating bridges between individual experience and collective consciousness. By engaging with these symbols, I aim to foster dialogue around the complexities of identity and the human condition – encouraging viewers to pause, reflect, and enter a shared space of transformation.
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Davit is a Georgian-American artist whose practice explores transformation, identity, and the dynamic exchange between inner and outer worlds. Born in war-torn Georgia and later immigrating to New York, his work is deeply informed by his lived experience as a queer immigrant. Drawing from nature, mythology, and Indigenous cosmologies, Davit creates symbolic compositions rich in tension, rhythm, and introspection. In 2024, he earned his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).
