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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

Archive of Academic Writings

2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

Pass Photo

Object

Nino Sekhniashvili

relief on wood, ink
2012
53x70 cm.

Conducting an image research on Georgian Iconographies, I worked on methods to transmit orthodox portraits into a new language. Trying to excerpt the images from any religious and pathetic elements, they were reduced to colored lines and finally reminding of kinds of bar-codes.