multifunctional space for Contemporary Art
multifunctional space for Contemporary Art
“SAPOVNELA”, collaboration with Zeliha Dogusan; Exhibition: Connect - Reconnect, GOETHE INSTITUT, Tbilisi; 2026
SAPOVNELA is a sound-based performance.
The title SAPOVNELA is connected to a Georgian word and a folkloric flower associated with intuition and the finding of what is lost - not through active searching, but through a state in which something reveals itself only when one is ready to notice it.
The visual and sonic material of the work is partially inspired by the architecture of the abandoned sanatoriums of Tskaltubo - spaces once built to heal bodies, now functionless remnants of a promise, shelters for refugees, overtaken by nature, trees, water, dust, and trash. Here, healing is no longer a given, but an ongoing and uncertain possibility.
The work unfolds through unstable sensory fields and residues of memory, operating as biological sensors, like a flower responsive to its environment. It opens slowly, asking for sensitivity, patience, and trust in what chooses to reveal itself.
Rather than leading the audience toward interpretation, the work attempts to draw them into a direct, lived experience, allowing them to sense within themselves whether memory and experience heal or damage.
©️ Goethe-Institut Georgien/ Photo: Giorgi Kolbaia / Video: Shio Khidasheli