Nino Kvrivishvili

Nino Kvrivishvili is taking part in Artists-in-residence program as well as participating in the project “Travel Agency” at KCCC. Nino is residenting in Klaipeda: 2014 07 28–08 27

Nino Kvrivishvili (b.1984) is textile artist from Georgia. She is invited lecturer of Textile Design and Visual Composition in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Her artistic practice is engaged with the history of textiles, and she finds herself continually returning to this aspect, which has a profound impact on her work today.

Nino produces different hand-woven and dyed textiles with different textures. In her search for beauty, N. Kvrivishvili explores the use of colour as a spatial medium. For that reason, Kvrivishvili is very focussed on presenting colourful pieces.

“When creating my works, my primary aim is to make the piece something that is more sensed then rationally understood. Especially in my latest words called “jejim”, where I enlarged the natural size of the weaving and also made it more sensitive with adding the narrative stories”, – says artist.

Exhibition “Exile’s suitcase”
22 08-21 09 2014

The title of the exhibition  tells the story about humans who are leaving  their countries  and  going  far away from  their birth place, they experience lots of difficulties  especially when they  are forced to  be migrated or expelled.

The simple pieces of silk handkerchiefs purely decorative  accessory  giving  a visual depiction   of the half-timbered houses, can held  a  narrative of  emotions,  memories  of people,  who were exiled from their country, as well it can be a symbol (or the memorable relic) from this  forced deportation,    that could hold memories of sadness, happiness,  well greetings, love and hope about a  better future. This is a visual tool for illustrating their personal identity and can be considered as a symbol of love and hope for a better future.
Greek dramaturgic Aeschylus says: “I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope”.

Project ″Travel Agency″ 

The residents involved in ″Travel Agency″ are suggested to reflect on the Klaipeda region and the city, to write diaries and keep their ″route accounting″, which equates the residency to travel agency engaging in cultural journeys.

The topics of the artworks are going to explore two issues: the first relates to the cultural identity that we derive from the personal and collective experience; the second deals with representations of personal experience stories and the construction of conceptual “message” by means of not formal documentation, but a cultural event that causes the reaction of the local community and incorporates it into the process. The project highlights the quest for Utopia in architecture, the time slip, gender and national identity.

The project is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.