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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.
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