....many of her pieces have been marked with ambivalence between softness and violence, between sex and death, between sensuality and tragedy. Symposium may at first sight seem quieter then Red, more serene. The body of a nude giant woman lying on a table like a recumbent effigy is worshipped by 8 men sitting at the table. ...it may echo secret sexual rituals on the edge of cannibalism. The men (whose profiles remind us of Renaissance paintings) caress her hair, her breast, her sex, her leg; they talk in pairs, and their hands are everywhere, touching, grapping, holding, arguing, gesticulating, male hands as source of threats and of pleasure. Some hold a book (is it a bible?), a goblet (is it a chalice?), a leaf (is it a holly leaf, with which caresses would also be punctures, bringing at the same time pain and pleasure?). Some keep one hand below the table, maybe for a... (http://www.galeriekornfeld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Tamara_Kvesitadze-Galerie-Kornfeld-Berlin-2013.pdf)