What Would it Mean to Leave Tip-Toe Dancing? Maybe I Should Remain a Butterfly in the War?

Nino Chubinishvili / Chubika 25.07 - 15.09.2024

In cooperation with David Kakabadze Foundation, TBC Concept presented Nino Chubinishvili’s /Chubika’s show What Would it Mean to Leave Tip-Toe Dancing? Maybe I Should Remain a Butterfly in the War? 

The show took place on two floors of the gallery, presenting strongly different expositions that, despite the contrast, created one united display. The works offered the viewers a journey into the artist's world and triggered different emotions and questions. The gallery on the first floor displayed sculptures and installations created at various times. The second floor housed a series of graphic sketches that shape a handmade book, To Elene, which was made in 1998 and is dedicated to the artist’s daughter. The book marks a special phase of Chubinishvili’s creative work and can be considered a fundamental creation that gave inspiration to the other projects. The show is accompanied by the artist’s text:

To Elene

"I am happy to present you my painted book, which I drew for my child Elene in 1998. In this book, I talk to her in an imaginary visual language and share what I could not express or contain in words. The drawing preserves the truth shown by a free imagination without any interpretations.

Each viewer becomes an interpreter of this image, which does not possess linear narratives or sentences. This is a fragmented tale where the main characters are Elene and her doll, Ingrid.

Maybe I Should Remain a Butterfly in the War?

This is the title of the exposition presented on the first floor. The work depicts a situation with no uniform answer and expresses several complex combinations that cannot be resolved if approached from only one perspective.

The accompanying text is a small version of a multidimensional dialogue, which, like the first work, To Elene, creates a lot of space for reflecting and perceiving the issue, image, or exposition from many angles.

Nino Chubinishvili / Chubika (born 1969) lives and works in Tbilisi. After graduating in the 1990s from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, track of stage and costume design, she has been awarded several prizes for costume design. From 2005 to 2006, she continued her studies in Paris at the Institute Français de la Mode and cooperated with fashion houses like Kenzo and Pierre Cardin. Chubika is an essential figure in both the fashion world and contemporary art. In the 1990s, she was a member of the informal multimedia art group Goslab.

For more information about the artist and her works, please visit her website: www.chubika.com