The Corridors of Conflict. Abkhazia 1989-1995
Tamar Chabashvili
installation, mixed media
2019
One of the key subjects in my work is the theme of trace. Each new project for me is an attempt to unravel the inheritance of the past and search for the traces and paths in order to speak about the emotional impact they had on me. I belong to the generation of artists who were in their teens during the 1990s, hence the process of discovering and challenging of our personal boundaries coincided with the bigger and more important events in our reality: the break-up of the Soviet Union; the installment of new borders... As a result, the emergence of ethnical conflicts completely overshadowed our personal biographies.
This exhibition tells the story of a critical period of recent Georgian history, the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, based on the archival materials. On display are materials previously unknown or forgotten by the general public – documents, newspapers and photographs, private letters and rare recordings of stories from people directly involved in events.