Textile making has a long history in Georgia, reflected in the diversity of different handicraft techniques, abundance of designs and wide range of typical imagery. Being a common occupation for…
What is textile telling us? Through this seemingly easy question, we can talk about eras, different cultures, personal memories, and a society’s formation. Needless to say, textile has a special…
In autumn 2020, with the support of CEC ArtsLink’s Art Prospect program, the State Silk Museum implemented a “support residency” and a collaborative project. In the framework of this initiative,…
Collage of archival material, Tamuna Chabashvili, 2020. My practice revolves around the topic of archives and traces. Mapping personal stories, memories, and questions into visual and tactile narratives, for me,…
Research project by artist Nino Kvrivishvili The material was prepared in collaboration with the State Silk Museum. It includes the samples and history of Georgian silk from the Soviet time,…
The starting point of The New Dictionary of Old Ideas is multifaceted research of Central Europe. An artistic exploration of topics concerning identity and urgent socio-political issues was extended by…
"5th Room" Nino Chubinishvili (Chubika) solo show was organised at the Silk Museum in 2017. The exposition was particularly featured the museum space. Author invited us to travel to the…
- What is suffocation, emotional state of gasp or simulation?- What is “butterfly effect” in virtual reality?- What is the Vice Versa of Voyeuristic fiction?- What is the challenge of…
The State Silk Museum preserves a small, but a very valuable collection - cardboard boxes for silkworm seed (eggs) transportation. The story of this collection is directly related to the creation…
In the framework of the project “Art Intervention at the Museum” Nino Kvrivishvili studied Soviet-era textiles and worked in the museum’s attic in 2016. During the residency process, she researched…