Gvantsa Jgushia

Gvantsa Jgushia

BornNationalityBased In
1999N/AAmsterdam
Biography

Gvantsa Jgushia (born in 1999, Zugdidi, Georgia) lives and works between Amsterdam (NE) and Tbilisi (GE). Gvantsa Jgushia is a visual artist and a writer working in various mediums, such as installation, sculpture, video, drawing, and olfactory medium, currently based in Amsterdam. Through her research-based practice, she examines rural traditions of healing and mourning, animistic beliefs evident in remnant ritual offerings, and plant-based curing efforts, together with modern-day technology and its approach to the human body, which often translate into larger-scale installations resembling a theatrical set, as her spatial thinking methods finds roots in Georgian stage design tradition. Jgushia’s work grapples with the material and mental tendencies of occupying a space, feelings of abandonment, translocation, and extraction. Her three-dimensional works integrate unconventional material choices and unfit pairings to emphasize the aspects of absurdity and forging. ...

Selected Artworks
You Don’t Take Me Dancing Anymore, (S. Dadiani 23)
Gvantsa JgushiaYou Don’t Take Me Dancing Anymore, (S. Dadiani 23), 20233500 CHF