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Emalin is pleased to present a wound on my plate, Tolia Astakhishvili’s (b. 1974, Tbilisi, GE) first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. Through a month-long engagement with The Clerk’s House, the artist has reshaped the gallery through architectural interventions, sculpture, painting, drawing, sound and moving image. The resulting exhibition comprises a body of new works alongside collaborations with Zurab Astakhishvili (1951 – 2025, Tbilisi, GE), Dylan Peirce (b. 1977, Paris, FR) and James Richards (b. 1983, Cardiff, UK).
Astakhishvili’s practice unfolds as a series of nested interiors, collaged worlds within worlds where multiple registers intersect. In this simultaneity, architecture becomes a structural material, responsive and unfixed, rewritten by the bodies and histories that move through it. Her interventions uncover hidden recesses and interstices, mapping the subtle remnants of use and care, while exposing the author…
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Emalin is pleased to present a wound on my plate, Tolia Astakhishvili’s (b. 1974, Tbilisi, GE) first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. Through a month-long engagement with The Clerk’s House, the artist has reshaped the gallery through architectural interventions, sculpture, painting, drawing, sound and moving image. The resulting exhibition comprises a body of new works alongside collaborations with Zurab Astakhishvili (1951 – 2025, Tbilisi, GE), Dylan Peirce (b. 1977, Paris, FR) and James Richards (b. 1983, Cardiff, UK).
Astakhishvili’s practice unfolds as a series of nested interiors, collaged worlds within worlds where multiple registers intersect. In this simultaneity, architecture becomes a structural material, responsive and unfixed, rewritten by the bodies and histories that move through it. Her interventions uncover hidden recesses and interstices, mapping the subtle remnants of use and care, while exposing the author…
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