This contemporary art piece features an array of intricate metal sculptures resembling discarded metal objects and fragments. The overall composition creates a visually striking and textural display, with each individual piece appearing weathered and distressed. The subject matter explores themes of urban decay, recycling, and the repurposing of everyday materials. The artist employs a unique technique of manipulating and welding found metal components to construct these abstract, sculptural forms. The work invites the viewer to consider the beauty and artistic potential within the overlooked and abandoned objects that populate our modern landscapes. ...
Tamuna Chabashvili engages with archives, memory, and traces left by personal and collective histories. Through visual and tactile narratives, she maps stories, memories, and questions emerging from the inheritance of the past. Her work seeks to uncover and give voice to ‘counter-memories’ or ‘counter-stories’—silenced or marginalized histories that dwell in spaces of absence and silence. Textile plays a vital role, often serving as a grid or framework that structures her works and holds layered narratives together. Each project becomes an opportunity for Chabashvili to engage directly with vulnerable and underrepresented groups, allowing her to broaden the scope of how embodied memories are retraced and interpreted in today’s world. These collaborations enrich her work by adding depth and new perspectives on identity, displacement, and resilience. By intertwining personal narratives with collective histories, her art challenges dominant narratives and invites reflection on the complexities of memory, loss, and healing in contemporary society. ...
Gallery Artbeat is a pioneering contemporary art gallery based in Tbilisi, Georgia representing mid-career and emerging Georgian artists.
Between 2014-2017 the gallery started its journey as a project space, a moving gallery using a shipping container for site-specific exhibitions to introduce contemporary art in peripheral locations where museums and galleries don't function. In October 2017 the gallery found it's permanent home in the heart of Tbilisi.
The gallery has a significant presence on the international art scene, collaborating with major institutions and museums and taking part in art fairs such as NADA Miami, Untitled Miami, Art Dubai, Artissima, Art Cologne.
Our aim is to support artists throughout their artistic journeys, foster cultural activities both locally and abroad, collaborate with international galleries and organisations and mark Georgia on an international art map. ...
