Polina Berlin Gallery is pleased to present a suite of twelve small scale paintings by Parmen Daushvili in Mexico City at Galeria Mascota, on view from February 2 - 7, 2026.

Daushvili’s introspective portraits and atmospheric interiors draw inspiration from his immediate surroundings: the cool, oblique London light that floods his beige and muted green flat; passers-by on his street; acquaintances and members of his immediate family. Framing his subjects singularly on a smaller scale, Daushvili masterfully captures the contemporary experience through the prism of daily routine, transforming unremarkable moments into poignant scenes of comedy and levity.

Although Daushvili draws upon subjects with which – and with whom – he is intimately familiar, his work stems from a process of free association, a stream-of-conscious invocation of lived experience and residual memory. Family, friends, and the artist himself all form a cast of reappearing characters, resurfacing across multiple paintings, placed in circumstances that seem to emerge at once from actuality and invention.

Recurrent motifs may point to the artist’s autobiographical context – toward his experience of migration and displacement – but they also situate us within a liminal state teetering between sleep and waking. Daushvili invites his viewer into a lucid dreamscape, one in which instances of mundanity mingle freely with errant thoughts, tentative associations, and hazy allegories.

A self-taught artist, Parmen Daushvili (b. 1970, Tbilisi, Georgia) began painting after immigrating to the UK from his native Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2008. Daushvili has presented solo exhibitions at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2025 & 2023); Ruttkowski;68, Düsseldorf, Germany (2025); Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland (2025); Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York (2024); and Grand Gallery, Malmö, Sweden (2023). His work has been included in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Daushvili was selected for inclusion in the BP Portrait Award (2014, 2019, 2020) at London’s National Portrait Gallery. He currently lives and works in London, UK.