Mariam SonghulashviliAbout Me / CV
Projects arranged in a Chronological Order
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Mariam Songhulashvili is a visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, working primarily with generative and interactive time-based visual art. Their practice explores several themes: the perception of time and memory - especially focusing on the understanding of queer temporality; the boundaries between abstraction and narration -  exploring it in a sense of gamification of reality perception; and the experience of being surrounded by urban, liminal spaces. Collaboration is central to their practice, typically involving musicians and writers.


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Urban Hymn
The project explores sound as a tool of power in the urban space.

Traffic, constant movement, and road noise create a sonic backdrop of everyday life.

These sounds speak of urban tension, overloaded systems/roads, and overwhelmed minds.

Urban Hymn -  the main voice: Tbilisi’s traffic.
Background sounds - songs about Tbilisi.
gabiskiriamalias original tracks.
A sound that is heard when these sounds are not.

The visual component of the work combines data that describes the urban space and is publicly available online - essentially, the city’s digital footprint. This includes meteorological, cartographic, satellite, and statistical materials. Such numerical representation of urban space, at first glance, seem entirely detached from the experience of physically being in that space. In order to describe the complex system of the city, to perceive and understand it as a whole, it becomes necessary to identify patterns hidden within the data.

While the sonic element is directly based on the sense of presence in urban space, the visual element enters into a dialogue with it, introducing a digital body - an avatar - into the city’s digital imprint.


Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili