Sophia Tabatadze is concerned with political and social events that lead to change \u2013 often radical and sudden \u2013 in the life circumstances of those people affected. Above all, she documents and reflects on those changes that have been experienced by the inhabitants of her home country Georgia in the recent phase of its chequered history.<\/p>\n
Tabatadze\u2019s artistic strategy is the inversion of \u2018inside\u2019 and \u2018outside\u2019: photos of house facades become interior decoration, images of human organs are combined to create a trendy wallpaper pattern, and a cosily furnished apartment is displayed behind transparent Perspex in a manner that is anything but cosy. Full of fine irony, Tabatadze\u2019s installations, video works and performances recount the discrepancy between form and content, facade and interior \u2013 in short: the discrepancy between \u201csemblance\u201d and \u201cbeing\u201d that is a permanent reality in our world. Although Tabatadze\u2019s works usually examine her home country, they nevertheless lay claim to universal validity. Their point of reference, the artist\u2019s main interest, is the \u2018condition humaine\u2019 in our global village.<\/p>\n
In \u201cAll My re-Collections\u201d at K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Sophia Tabatadze displays collections of everyday things that she gathered during different phases of her life. Usually, these would serve as starting points for Tabatadze\u2019s artistic work, but here the inconspicuous objects themselves become the theme of the presentation,
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