Giorgi Vardiashvili

Giorgi Vardiashvili is one of the winners of the TAB open call. He studies visual art and design at Free University Tbilisi. His interests are focused on observing controversial issues and expressing them in different media such as large scale installation, sculpture, video.

Recently strict relations between the nature and the constant construction processes have become a perpetual challenge for Tbilisi. Last 50 years, suburbs of Tbilisi are changing and urban environment is expanding on the daily basis. People need more residential spaces, reconstructions, new buildings and at the same time more natural resources are also needed.  Perceptive and meaningless interventions in the environment formed the urban landscape as a rough and brutal. Living here represents a spontaneously constant process, where environmental surrounding changes daily.  Often crucially important mother-nature is replaced by residential spaces for human beings. Urban Monument, a wooden log partially dipped in concrete and stretched on the scaffold, represented at Tbilisi architecture Biennial is a symbol of Tbilisi’s suburban dilemma.