‘I grew up in North Caucasus, in the region of constant drain of the population as the post war setting became unbearable. On the other hand, my family was there fleeing from Georgia’s civil war from the 90s. Our town, Nal'chik, placed under the Elbrus Mountain. The Elbrus is dormant volcano. And my whole childhood I admired the majestic peaks of the Caucasus Mountains, praying that Elbrus would not wake up and that people would stop destroying each other.
In 2014, after graduation, I returned to my homeland, Georgia, and fully devoted myself to art as a document of reality.
The contrast of mentalities, religions and social structures I lived in, made a big influence on me as an artist. My art can be perceived as one «addressing actual problems», but it is important for me to capture the timeless contradictions of human nature, as a fragile, helpless, but disastrous being in the same time.
I am a documentary filmmaker, performance artist and painter. My activities are diverse and multifaceted, each area contains improvisation and a performative basis.
Through video documentation and research, my primary focus is on comprehending borderline states of mind and mental crisis. I am interested in the opposition of human and society in the context of separatism, integration and the search for self-identification. The basis of my method is documenting and analyzing the fluctuations of subjective reality, personal experience, woven into a historical spiral, through painting and filmmaking.
I studied visual art (Design college KBGU, Kabardino-Balkar republic, 2008) and documentary directing (VGIK, Moscow, Russia, 2014). I have been a member of many international residencies and educational programs around of South Caucasus and EU’.
Exhibitions and projects:
Solo show THROWBACK HOMELAND at the Ambrolauri State Museum of Fine Arts, Georgia, 2026
Solo exhibition at Art City People, Berlin, Germany, 2025
Represented by Dissolution Gallery at Tbilisi Art Fair 2024
Co-curator and artist of the multimedia art project “Under Supra”, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024
Co-curator and artist of the group art project “Sacutari otakhi”, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024
Participant in the Global Feminist Pitch: Feminism in Pictures 2023 by the Heinrich Boell Foundation
Participant in the group project “The Burden of the River” by the Collective Failure, with USAID support, Georgia, 2023
Participant in the group project “The Landscapes of the Invisible” by the Collective Failure, TES club and NGO Climate Basics, Georgia, 2023
Participant in the group exhibition “NoBorderland” at "Untitled gallery Tbilisi”, Georgia, 2022
Participant in International Festival of Contemporary Art "To be a woman. Maiden Tower", Baku, Azerbaijan, 2019
Solo multimedia project "Isolation", Baku, Azerbaijan, 2019
Solo exhibition “Artist's space” at "Untitled gallery Tbilisi", 2019
Solo exhibition "Aquarium" at "Contemporary Art Space", Batumi, Georgia, 2018
Group show at "ARTBOX. PROJECT New York 1.0" at the "Armory Artweeks New York", USA, 2018
Solo show "Mezzanine" at Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2017
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