The Georgian National Museum network presents Sophia Cherkezishvili’s “Being on the Mind of Caucasus Mountains” at the Tbilisi History Museum from 27 September to 11 October 2019.
"When I look at the Caucasus in front of me, I think that everything is possible, that it hears my voice, it sees me, follows me, it is my energy. It protects me like a fence for the rest of my life. It is like a parent, big and fearless. My people live in these paintings with it." The project "Being on the mind of Caucasus Mountains" was created with this vision, consisting of paintings and installation objects.
Curated by Nino Gujabidze, in each of Cherkezishvili’s paintings, there is the shape of the Caucasus Mountains. She creates an army of individuals resembling small mountains in a series “I am like you too." The women silhouettes are carved from wood. Visitors can become part of this army by putting their faces through the space in some of the wooden figures.
The blue series "The Caucasus Thought of Me" shows a “resemblance to the door of an altar with a woman in a flower arch on a blue background: all women in blue robes indicate the Virgin.”
Sophia Cherkezishvili says, “A woman is sometimes large and majestic, like a mistress of the mountains, sometimes a little girl jumping on a bed surrounded by mountains, like guards, sometimes a dreamer walking in the woods, and finally, a mother surrounded by a flower wreath; but everyone has bare breasts, with pronounced nipples as a sign of openness to the world, acceptance, concern for others, and at the same time it resembles a shooting target. And here I can't avoid another ‘sensitive thought’ that this is a symbol of our Motherland, its fate.."
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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