Co-curated by Lydia Matthews, Nino (Chuka) Kuprava and Mariam Shergelashvili Supported by the US Embassy in Georgia Texts as Cultural Treasure is a multidisciplinary project at the State Silk Museum…
Inside a “cocoon,” surrounded by a silk layer through which the images of moths and giant cocoons can be noticed; roofed with archival images of sericulture - mulberry tree and…
Without Museum Objects The Silk Museum started to spin a cocoon around itself. After the building’s rehabilitation, the museum will reopen in a new form. The objects are being temporarily…
I worked on the project Pirimze for several years. I researched this building from different angles and met a lot of people who worked there. As a result, I created…
Tbilisi Silk Weaving Factory, which many of us have heard about, was founded in 1928 inside the former tobacco mill of Tbilisi. The building itself was constructed in 1883 and…
What Is Textile Telling Us? This was the name of an online educational program that the State Silk Museum implemented in March 2021. The workshop focused on personal stories regarding…
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…
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,…
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…