“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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