Artistic Works
Selected Works
Selfreflection: Corona Feeeling
2021
During the Corona period, I missed my family in Georgia the most. All of a sudden, the border was there again, almost impossible to cross.... The uncertainty of when I would be able to see my family again, when I would be able to play with my nieces again in our old house in Guria, West Georgia, tormented me.... In the times of hard lockdown, I often dreamed of Tbilisi's streets, of special fragrance of our garden, of my mother's voice....
Participation with this work at Galerie Koppelmann - Kunstwerk Nippes, Selfreflection: Corona Feeling
hall of fame - reloaded
2009 - 2021
In my work hall of fame I deal with the star and celebrity phenomenon and the fascination they trigger.
The star phenomenon is not a product of modern times, but a timeless phenomenon, just like the human urge for recognition, fame and immortality. And yet death is the beginning of fame. It frees the "stars" from human weaknesses and transforms them into the timeless saints and idols.
My work is a self-dramatization. I am covered in a black costume. One sees me and one does not see me. Sometimes I am a "blasphemous Madonna", sometimes a "fetish saint" and sometimes a being between a king and the "Oscar".
The photographs are dyed with black tea and the small formats are additionally treated with the wax.
I found the fusion of photographic and painterly elements particularly exciting: the imperfect surface of the photographs, so undesirable especially in the case of the mortal stars, as it refers to decay and transience, so the wax lays down as a protective film on the images, and spoils the "stars" on their way to immortality.
My renditions are often the results of various experiments based on different craft and digital processes. The playful aspect of surprise and the search for a new expression are particularly important to me.
This work is currently being shown as part of "open studios Cologne 2021" in OKKS/Cologne
Why are you here?
2021
Why are you here?" is a multimedia project with text, image, audio and video layers, a work-in-progress.
It is about my roots, about my two homes. A story about searching and finding, failing and getting up again.
Participation with this and other project in the group exhibition "WEIBSBILDER" in OKKS/Cologne in the summer 2021
Pepperoni with Honey
An ongoing project
2021
Thought as a book project, partly autobiographical. A mixture of text and image. A mixture of the two worlds, my two homes: Georgia and Germany. Formerly fifty-fifty, now more lifetime spent here. Where is my home? What determines my identity?
The journey to the origin of my memories...
Singularity An ongoing project
2020
Currently I am working on a project with the working title "Singularity - Behind the event horizon". It is about our life on earth and the parallel in the universe. A kind of connection between these worlds, one within reach and the other not necessarily directly present in our everyday life.
