A major international group show features 26 international artists from different generations and includes newly commissioned pieces and site-specific installations, historical works belonging to the MAXXI Collection (more…)
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Anka Gujabidze
Photographer
I am a freelance photographer, independently working on projects and available for assignments in Caucasian region and in Europe.
I was born in Georgia, Tbilisi in 1987. Since 2003 I have been interested in photography.
In 2013 I graduated from MA program in photography, at KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium.
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Rustavi is the fourth-largest city in Georgia, situated 27 km southeast of the capital, Tbilisi, with a population of about 120,000 people. The history of Rustavi is considered to have two phases: an early period from ancient times until the city was destroyed in the 13th century, and a modern period since 1948 until the present day. During the second half of the 20th century Rustavi was hastily rebuilt as a key industrial centre. The core of the city was the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant, which, next to other 90 large and medium sized factories, played a key role in supplying the Transcaucasia region with steel. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, almost all plants were shut down, unemployment reached 65 percent, and crime and poverty surged. Recently two large plants have reopened: the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant (renamed as Georgian Steel) and Geosteel, owned and managed by British-Georgian and Indian-Georgian private companies respectively.
”What the hell brought you here?” was a question I was repeatedly asked by people in Rustavi, whom I met in the streets of this city. The question was a reaction, and revealed the attitude of people about their own surrounding, rather than a genuine curiosity about my project. During the shooting I perceived Rustavi as a dead city, not in the sense that people can’t live there, but because it feels as a cemetery of an ideological myth that served as a purpose to build it. Rustavi is like a theatrical décor without a viewer; a shop of second-hand clothes in a rusty garage, sheep pasturing on a football field, an airplane turned into a kindergarten. On the surface those sites seem humoristic but when one looks at the context and sees the full picture, those unusual, odd momentums reveal something dramatic: a struggle of an average inhabitant of this city to keep on living.
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Diary of a PandemicMagnum photographers
The COVID-19 outbreak has imposed restrictions in movement. As part of an ongoing initiative, photographers of Magnum Photo are sharing information and new work made in these strange and difficult times.
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YesterdaySal Taylor Kydd
Artist and poet Sal Taylor Kydd announces the release of Yesterday, a limited edition artist book produced in conjunction with Datz Press, that explores the feelings of isolation and dislocation brought on by the pandemic (more…)
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Ferus: A Visual ConversationSep 7 – Oct 8, 2022
JD Malat Gallery is thrilled to announce the historic group show Ferus: A Visual Conversation which will showcase never before seen artworks by Billy Al Bengston, John Altoon, Ed Moses, Craig Kauffman, and Giorgio Morandi. (more…)
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Alec SothPhotographer
Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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The Last HumansAlienation in the Anthropocene
We have fundamentally altered the earth’s ecosystem by disrupting the natural rhythm of our planet and in doing so have created a new chapter in the evolution of Earth and a new stage of uncertainty.
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Nan GoldinPhotographer
Nan Goldin is an American photographer known for her deeply personal and candid portraiture. Goldin’s images act as a visual autobiography documenting herself and those closest to her. (more…)
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Lu GuangPhotographer
Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)
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Growing Body of EvidenceSep 10 – Dec 18, 2022
In this exhibition, artists Aneta Grzeszykowska, Colette Sadler and VARNA reflect on aspects of corporeality, artificiality, and the human body as a harbinger and carrier of knowledge. Deconstruction of identity, physical memory and reclaiming of embodied practices are themes (more…)
