Precious Stone
Gallery Artbeat
“Precious Stone” is a continuation of artist’s previous stone series. In a form of an eye Botchorishvili attempts to create reflections of colorful stones found in the mountains. The artist believes that these stones compress energy, which has been accumulated for centuries. Mountain stones are recreated into the human eyes with their function, history and energy transformed. They become schematized, embroidered, entertaining and decorative similar to a human being, who tries to hide away from deep, dramatic and painful history and to recreate from fragmented diversity a new narrative.
By playing with flirty art forms “Precious Stone” tries to confront dramatic effects of time and dismantled body forms. Objects in the exhibition represent convulsive forms of our time’s broken body system, which are made from synthetic clay and second hand toys. Sex, sexual interaction, politics, power, domination and subordination are notions, which constantly change the structure of body and tissue, they appear in the sculptures made by the artist. Body begins to represent an illusory object of a psychologic drama and strives to leak away or even to disappear from wooden stands” – Lali Pertenava
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Beyond the Hills
Artbeat Gallery
In my latest figurative works, I explore the complexity of the human body and its intricate nature. I particularly emphasize the nude body as a form of expression and empowerment. The compositions are not narrative but are entirely built on symbols. The portraits create a collective image rather than portraying individual identities. Through this approach, I provoke the viewer to reflect on how they perceive themselves and others.
One of the recurring body parts in my work is the ‘breast’, a symbol that carries multiple meanings it is often viewed as an object of sexuality and desire, but also as something sacred and nurturing (as in breastfeeding). It becomes a symbol of longing, reflecting my perspective on autonomy and respect, inviting the viewer to engage with their own perceptions of identity and the body’s image.
The breast serves as a powerful metaphor for freedom, representing liberation from societal expectations related to sexuality and the body’s usage. Through this series, I aim to dismantle cultural and social stigmas that continue to complicate women’s lives and hinder their participation in civic, social, and political spheres.
If we attempt to envision the future, it becomes even clearer that we must consider how the roles and functions of women and of people in general will evolve, what challenges we will face, and how these transformations will reshape our relationship with ourselves and our bodies.
With this exhibition, I raise these questions and invite the viewer to engage in this reflection to imagine a future where freedom, autonomy, and self-determination are fundamental. In this context, our understanding of the body and identity is a deeply personal journey rather than a collective one, moving toward an inclusive and empowered society’ – Tamar BotchorishvilIi.
Meat-eater is Crying
Artbeat Gallery
Series of artworks in the ‘Meat-eater is Crying’ include two narratives – the first tells us a story of the artist’s dog and is directly connected to the artist’s personal experience while interacting with the creature. The second tells us about the discovery of geographic identity as cultural information and establishing necessary forms in order to depict this information. This process is the result of the artist’s dreamy and phantasmagoric trip to Tusheti region of Georgia.
Memory as history is an evolving structure that gives a certain meaning to an individual’s life. Being in time makes human existence historical from the very beginning. Enigmatic events always leave their trace on us and change our point of perception. What is the trace? Whose is it? How does it affect us?
Life and death, playfulness and strictness, attractive and horrifying elements are all merged in each other in Botchorishvili’s works. At first, we must pay attention to figures and question how they fuse with the nature, what kind of phantasmagoric forms flow into each other? Forms of abstracted figures acquire enigmatic mood and their movements sometimes express humorous and gracious emotions.
From the beginning we can easily fall into deep symbolism of Botchorishvili’s artworks. On the simply arranged plane composition depicted interplayed objects among each other are reduced to absurdity. It pushes us to comprehend the main message of the artworks. Everything is sealed with subjective impressions and notes. At first, we are coming in contact with different animals, their poses or movements. We can relate to them and are understandable, but their abstract forms don’t give us any possibility to individualize them. As if they are sealed images in memory, which can only be accessible by their owner. These new series of works by Botchorishvili gives us the opportunity to look deeply into the intimate aspects of the human being and the artist gives to them a higher degree of universality by using graphic and collage techniques.
