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Following her studies at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art, the artist relocated to Amsterdam in 1993 to continue her studies at the Rietveld Academy. In political terms, this was a traumatic period of transformation in Georgia following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. For the artist, the visual form of utopian “socialist realism” fell apart as a metaphor for the structures of the country. Before any real knowledge of the modes and languages of the contemporary art world, the young artist intuitively followed the rhythms of the changing reality around her, defining a path of change within these compositions that seek to visualise a sense of transition.