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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

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2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

The Moment of Narcissism - Maka Batiashvili

2019

Project ArtBeat is pleased to present Maka Batiashvili’s solo exhibition, The Moment of Narcissism.

“It is a moment in which we focus at ourselves, which is illusory and instant, where on the one hand we are represented and on the other our idealized self. Posing and fixing our appearance is what we call our daily life.

This is a moment when human approaches his or her inner, non-material world most closely or oppositely getting farer, runs away and puts a mask temporary.

It happens when we look at the mirror, when we are at the street and looking at vitrine of shops while we are glancing our reflections on it and especially when we pose at photo shootings.

Today when we live in digital world and own social networks, we have an amazing possibility to represent the best version of ourselves. Here is place where imaginary and real life meets each other and after all everything becomes as information chaos.

Represented works are created by observing and speculating with these moods... and narcissism is considered not as a human flaw but as logical expression of personal identity and controlling of own state”. - Maka Batiashvili