Ninutsa Shatberashvili and Sandro Sulaberidze from Tbilisi, Georgia, are the first guests at the newly opened message salon embassy Zürich Nord.
Over the next few weeks, they will be working in the studio in the Hunzikerareal, exploring the neighbourhood and the city, visiting exhibitions and art happenings and inviting new friends, neighbours and the Zurich art scene to get-togethers in the studio.
Ninutsa Shatberashvili (born 1993) and Sandro Sulaberidze (born 1991) studied photography in Tbilisi, but their artistic practice goes beyond that. They are members of the art collective Obscura, an association of young artists and curators in Tbilisi. Obscura organises exhibitions in the local art scene, generates temporary art spaces and thus inspires, motivates and stimulates an increasingly visible young art scene in the capital of Georgia. The young generation in today’s Georgia is looking for a new identity, it wants to come to terms with the history and imprint of the Soviet Union, is trying to revitalise buried cultural traditions and is also hoping for a development towards a modern and open society that can retain its pride, independence and uniqueness by looking towards Europe.