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Mariam Songhulashvili is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, working primarily with generative and interactive time-based visual art. Their practice explores the boundaries between abstraction and narration, often incorporating text, archival materials, and imagery such as scans or satellite data which reflect on urban spaces. Collaboration is central to their practice, typically involving musicians and writers.











Urban Hymn



Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili











Co-Occurence
Created for the Goethe Institute of Georgia

Audio: Anushka Chkheidze
Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili











??? ‘Since... liminal time is not controlled by the clock, it is a time.. when anything might, even should, happen.’  (v.turner)


Performed at ‘Borders & Exits’ at Art House Gori

Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili






The river, the ambiguous time, and all the other namesSomewhere between a humorous broadcast and a poetic meditation, the project attempts to engage with the Mtkvari—to grasp its past, its image, the popular knowledge accumulated around it, its size and areas of coverage. In trying to better understand it, it becomes estranged from its familiar face, and at the same time more intimate with its unknowability.

Dedicated to everyone who is lost in the current.

  • Text: Mariam Songhulashvili & Mariam Kakhniashvili
  • Audio: Found
  • Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili






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.’

Visual Manipulation: 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