10-31 May

Lasha Kabanashvili’s site-specific installation attempts to replicate an imaginary model of a beauty shop in a gallery which is in an underground crossing and has an appropriate urban location for similar services.

From the anthropological perspective the work of art studies a beauty shop as a socio-cultural institution which reproduces models of normative appearance and sacralizes the subject’s experience as consumerist ritual.

A beauty shop in the installation is presented as a liminal space in which time has stopped and timeless or beyond time experience is created, whereas the implemented procedures give the opportunity to play with time and rewind it forward and backward.

The exposition creates two controversial narratives which on the one hand portrays reproduced forms of beauty in pop-culture and on the other hand rethinks those practices that are used by culture to establish identity of a person.

Lasha Kabanashvili is a Tbilisi-based Artist, working in different mediums: Installation, Poetry, Video Art, AI, Experimental Photography and Performance. His current work reflects on contemporary consumer society; the discourse of capitalism, the discourse of science and their relations with each other; the digitalage, post-humanism, queer theory and cyberfeminism.

Exhibition supported by Tbilisi City Hall