2025
Installation, material research
variable dimensions
Silkscreened concrete (Heidelberg Cement Georgia), steel, quarry waste ceramic high fire glazes
Kataula is a research-driven artistic project set in the limestone quarries of Kavtiskhevi, a village in Georgia profoundly shaped by the relentless extraction of its natural resources. At the heart of the work is a confrontation with Georgian legislation, which sanctions mining until total resource depletion, cementing a future of inevitable destruction. These extractive practices, rooted in colonial legacies of German industrial intervention in the region, strip the mountain of its organic essence, turning sedimentary rock into displaced fragments of its own ecosystem.
The project operates at the intersection of witnessing and intervention. Cement and quarry waste, the materials of industrial erasure, are reclaimed and reimagined. Photographic imprints of are embedded into cement tiles, creating a tactile archive of the village’s existence. Ceramic bodies and glazes crafted from quarry waste serve as vessels for what the mountain has lost, refusing commodification and resisting erasure.
variable dimensions
Silkscreened concrete (Heidelberg Cement Georgia), steel, quarry waste ceramic high fire glazes
Kataula is a research-driven artistic project set in the limestone quarries of Kavtiskhevi, a village in Georgia profoundly shaped by the relentless extraction of its natural resources. At the heart of the work is a confrontation with Georgian legislation, which sanctions mining until total resource depletion, cementing a future of inevitable destruction. These extractive practices, rooted in colonial legacies of German industrial intervention in the region, strip the mountain of its organic essence, turning sedimentary rock into displaced fragments of its own ecosystem.
The project operates at the intersection of witnessing and intervention. Cement and quarry waste, the materials of industrial erasure, are reclaimed and reimagined. Photographic imprints of are embedded into cement tiles, creating a tactile archive of the village’s existence. Ceramic bodies and glazes crafted from quarry waste serve as vessels for what the mountain has lost, refusing commodification and resisting erasure.
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2024
Artistic Intervention,
Vienna, Austria
In fact, food delivery riders, most of them migrants, have almost no labour protection. During WIENWOCHE, “state of matter” Verein (Ana Mikadze, Fabio Hofer) called for active solidarity in connecting the festival audience with the riders, whose work shifts were taken over by volunteers on a solidarity basis. In this way, the riders used their time off duty to learn about their rights and connect to colleagues, who they have been deliberately disconnected from through the working environments dictated by the platforms.
Vienna, Austria
In fact, food delivery riders, most of them migrants, have almost no labour protection. During WIENWOCHE, “state of matter” Verein (Ana Mikadze, Fabio Hofer) called for active solidarity in connecting the festival audience with the riders, whose work shifts were taken over by volunteers on a solidarity basis. In this way, the riders used their time off duty to learn about their rights and connect to colleagues, who they have been deliberately disconnected from through the working environments dictated by the platforms.
variable dimensions
found chairs, home-gym, screen, speakers, gypsum, paint, paper mache.
Video loop on screen
‘‘Two Georgian content moderators can be heard having a conversation in which neglected basic working conditions at their workplace take central stage. They work at a secondary outsourcing company, where NDAs prohibit them from dis-closing any information about their work and conveniently make any form of protesting or unionizing impossible.’’
found chairs, home-gym, screen, speakers, gypsum, paint, paper mache.
Video loop on screen
‘‘Two Georgian content moderators can be heard having a conversation in which neglected basic working conditions at their workplace take central stage. They work at a secondary outsourcing company, where NDAs prohibit them from dis-closing any information about their work and conveniently make any form of protesting or unionizing impossible.’’
Installation
variable dimensions
mixed media
Project highlights the colonial legacies of technocratic experimentation in South Caucasus. The immersive time-based installation unites an API software and a research publication.
variable dimensions
mixed media
Project highlights the colonial legacies of technocratic experimentation in South Caucasus. The immersive time-based installation unites an API software and a research publication.