KIRILL AND HIS FRIENDS

The fact that we all become performers of our own lives every day is one of the basic ideas behind SHALVA NIKVASHVILI's artistic work. His multimedia work is characterised by an ongoing exploration of questions of identity, beauty and trauma. In his photographs, videos and sculptures, he creates various gender-fluid characters based on in-depth observation and artistic negotiation of social norms. In the resulting social illusion, he repeatedly provokes the grotesque and pushes viewers to the limits of their experience by playing with discomfort. Here, discomfort becomes a condition for new realities through irritation and provocation. 

The opening exhibition ‘Tza’ at Kunstverein 47m Contemporary is the artist's first institutional solo exhibition. In here, he creates a world in which normality does not exist - in which we all live in our own illusion. The Georgian exhibition title - ‘Tza’ (‘ცა’) in English ‘Sky’ - already refers to this as a repesenation of the only constant truth in a reality full of lies.

THE CANNES MOMENTS