Gallery Project ArtBeat presents a multi-media Georgian artist Mamuka Japharidze’s solo exhibition, “Works from Archive”.

The exhibition is an attempt to present the archival fragments from the oeuvre of the artist, spanning from the 1990’s till present. The show will feature Japharidze's personal archive, which will contain artist's personal records, visual and textual documentation of art events from 80’s and 90’s Georgia. Each visual material shown at the exhibition becomes an artifact that is converted into a communication form and is in a dialogue with a viewer, transcending different historical periods and contexts, which were crucial in the development of Georgian contemporary art scene.

The exhibition combines several fields that Japharidze works in: Mythological themes, works which are based on the principle of linguistic gameplay, visual images translated into kitsch form that show a consumerist attitude towards art and profane processes transformed as a poetic act and their visual manifestation.