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2064
Pneuma
Vertskhlistskali
Mariam Songhulashvili is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. With a background in graphic design, illustration, and 3D graphics, their work has always centered on visual form and communication. They are particularly interested in the intersections and boundaries between various techniques and approaches. Currently, their practice focuses on generative and interactive processes within time-based media, often incorporating text and archival materials.











Tkivili 1.0Audio-Visual representation for a text written by @prostheticwings, conserning the chronicity of pain:

‘Constantly arriving with new strength, new form, new frequency, it leaves new scratches [or] cracks on your mind.

It has no point of reference, no trajectory of flow, it is simply scattered within you.

At times, it spills over from its course and devours even the boundary that separates “you” from “the other.”

Pain deceives the mind in fog and carries the body along.’

Visually this is illustrated through cellular and microscopic imagery. The processes of separation and unification alternate, till the complete dissassembly into the white void. This loops the work, which in its turn through repetition emphasizes the chronicity.

  • Text: prosthetic wings
  • Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
  • Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili





2064 / BlurFeaturing original music and AI-assisted collaborative vocals and lyrics, this work captures nostalgia and self-irony within the technological possibilities of the future.  ‘we write the story of our future from narratives based on the past...Mindful awareness can bring into consciousness those hidden, past-based perspectives so that they no longer frame our worldview’. The visual texture of the piece relies on archival photographic imagery, manipulation of the real-world 3D scans, and animating the digital avatar of Gabiskiriamalia.

Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
Visuals: Mariam
Songhulashvili




  • Malady of (false) Hope
Archival imagery trigger the nostalgic longing for the past, which can never be grasped. The photographic sources depicting Tbilisi, Georgia  create the illusion of three dimensionality, but upon close inspection dissolve into one another, leaving one with an failed attempt to grasp a fleeting emotion of nostalgia. 

This work is based on archival imagery of Tbilisi from the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. 


Audio - Obelisk by Arca*
*Disclaimer - non-original audio






Have a safe way home. Tread carefully‘It’s been confirmed that the world has no edge, where do we go from here? ‘

‘Have a Safe Way Home. Tread Carefully’ is a one-hour meditative piece, heavily based on a text that explores the emotions of being on the road. The work tries to poetically capture the process of returning ‘home.’ Two voices - through both audio and written text - engage in a dialogue that leads to no  conclusion, except the reminder to tread carefully. In the process, however, they share something more important than the end point itself:

‘Show me -
The path I will get lost on.
The compass I cannot return with.
The sea I cannot sail across.

I am also forgiven for having the ability to endure more than was necessary.’

Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili
Audio Selection: Mariam Kakhniashvili
Text: Mariam Kakhniashvili & Mariam Songhulashvili






  • Dots and Lines
"Dots and Lines" is a collaborative work of two independent artists, Nino Davadze and Mariam Songhulashvili, which observes the audio-visual characteristics of the city. The piece is a synthesis of visual images of the city and field recordings, where both artists process the material with a random principle. 


A city is a set of intersection points and lines connecting them. These relations create a kind of urban arithmetic, which emphasizes the simultaneous coexistence of both an orderly system and a random, changing space in the city.


The visual texture of the piece relies on cartographic and meteorological data of Tbilisi and is triggered by the audio impulses. The “Dot and Lines” as sonic form is the collection of fragments recorded in the city, which on one hand, reflects on social aspects of everyday life, but on the other hand,  opposes it by brutal sound interaction. The audio piece is partly improvised, partly pre-prepared, where the raw audio material is processed into rhythmic or harmonic phrases.

  • Audio: Nino Davadze
  • Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili





Who’s There? A playful personality test that combines projection and an interactive questionnaire. Upon completion, the viewer receives a personalized audio-visual experience, accompanied by a text description of their personality type. The visuals incorporate and manipulate small snippets from various films.

Sources Used:

Mirror of Holland (1950)
L’amore (1956)
Rocco and his Brothers (1960)
The Leopard (1963)
Le Bonheur (1965)
The Damned (1969)
Movie VO (1982)
The So-Called Caryatids (1984)
Allers Venues (1984)
U.S.S.A. (1985)
Matador (1986)
Close Up (1990)
Happy End (1996)
Dream Work (2001)
Birdsong (2008)
The Title was Shot (2009)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives (2010)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
The Art of Flying (2015)
Glacier (2017)
Half Eaten Cow (2017)
Shimmer (2019)
Autumn Colors (2020)
Osmosis (2022)


Visual Edit and Manipulation: Mariam Songhulashvili
Text: Mariam Kakhniashvili 


გაზაფხული / gazapkhuliFor the past two years, every spring, Tbilisi loses its shape and rhythm as familiar landmarks take on new meanings. This six-minute audio-reactive video installation uses geodata from eight locations tied to protests, transforming the city’s physical structure into reactive point clouds, that respond dynamically to Nino Davadze’s musical composition, capturing Tbilisi’s diverse and chaotic character as a city that feels both fragmented and central. Buildings represented as points love their form, dissolving into an unrecognizable, unstructured chaos. This visual fragmentation is contrasted with lines from an abstract poem that articulates the struggle of surviving within a crumbling system, serving as a souvenir of experiences that remains even as the city’s architecture collapses into disorder.


  • Audio: Nino Davadze
  • Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili









ლეთი / LetiSince the project focuses on the region of Svaneti and includes field recordings from there, I’ve opted to base the visuals on the its representations found in cinema. It all began with the visually striking and historically significant Soviet movie Salt for Svanetia (1930). As its visual language is rooted in editing, its imagery has a potential to be re-used and re-contextualized in a completely different, contemporary setting. This work, therefore, is an attempt of re-using and re-mixing the snippets from the movies to create a recomposed reflection of Svaneti.

Sources used:

Salt for Svanetia (1930) by Mikheil Kalatozishvili
Georgian Ancient Songs (1969) by Otar Iosseliani 
In Georgia (1987) by Jürgen Böttcher
Dinola (2013) by Mariam Khatchvani

  • Audio: Nino Davadze
  • Visual Edit and Manipulation: Mariam Songhulashvili






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