(DE)CONTEXTUALIZATION
/ 2015

Exhibition in collaboration with Popiashvili Ghvaberidze Window Project

Held in a gallery occupying an apartment in the house of Melik Azaryants at 37 Rustaveli Avenue, (DE)CONTEXTUALIZATION explored the transformation of meaning through spatial and conceptual displacement.

At its core, the project examined the act of (DE)CONTEXTUALIZATION  by reintroducing archival objects from the Agricultural University – animal sculptures, measuring tools, and educational diagrams – into a contemporary exhibition setting. Removed from their original didactic environment, these artifacts were reinterpreted through the lens of contemporary art and spatial design.

The exhibition brought together works by Luka Tsetskhladze, Levan Chelidze, and Merab Gugunashvili, presented within the Popiashvili Ghvaberidze space. It was developed in collaboration with Irina Popiashvili, Nino Nozadze, and Ketevan Sakandelidze.

As an interior designer and co-curator, Nino Nozadze shaped the spatial narrative of the exhibition, focusing on the relationship between objects and their surroundings. Their placement within the historic interior was carefully orchestrated to emphasize contrast, continuity, and new contextual readings.

Through the layering of contemporary interventions onto both the objects and the architectural setting, the exhibition formed a new visual and conceptual harmony—blurring boundaries between past and present, function and abstraction.

Photographed by Guram Kapanadze