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14/04/2026

My home💛🌷

22/03/2026

Simple beauties

14/02/2026

30/10/2025

Yesterday, I visited Man Ray's exhibition in Milan. It was quite interesting and inspiring. As I started exploring the exhibition, my thoughts drifted to the Georgian painter Gigo Gabashvili (1862-1936) who also experimented with photography though this part of his work was discovered not so long ago. His photographs remained hidden for decades because of Soviet censorship in Georgia.

Throughout the visit, I kept reflecting on how different artistic and social conditions can be; Man Ray had New York, Paris, Duchamp, an open, restless world, full of exchange and discovery.
Gabashvili had Tbilisi, the mountains, travels across Central Asia... and the silence of the Soviet years - a world much more “contained.”

It’s not about better or worse, just different realities.
Gigo Gabashvili's photographs, hidden for decades, breathe something tender and powerful to me.
I’d love to share some of his photographs here on Instagram. I’m sure many of you haven’t seen them before.
📷Source:

“Gigo Gabashvili is recognised as one of the founders of realism in Georgian painting. Soviet ideological dogmas and strict puritanism dominated the artistic environment of the 1920–30s. However, Gabashvili, who was recognised and valued by the Soviet regime, turned his art studio into a platform for visual experiments saturated with eroticism through his use of photographic media.”

27/10/2025

Saying goodbye to San Marco Basilica ended up being one of the hardest parts🤍🐠

08/10/2025

Gražus ruduo

29/09/2025

When you’re simply having fun with the plastic coat, it inspires you to do silly yet creative things.

24/08/2025

Watching summer fade away from "the forest train".

18/06/2025

14/05/2025

Baltas