Imagine moving an entire village water mill to a small, downtown apartment. That is what Nika Kutateladze did for the final part of the trilogy he started in 2016. Taken piece by piece from his family village in the Georgian region of Guria, the machinery has been installed in a Soviet-era apartment, on what is now Kazbegi Avenue, but was then called Pavlov Street - hence the work’s title. Kutateladze has embarked on an ambitious exercise with his trilogy to slice up and display elements of Georgia’s recent Soviet past where they intersect with his own. They are monuments that are both public and personal, infused with the artist’s emotion.

Photo: Guram Kapanadze