Sorry, No Flowers Here

Gvantsa Jishkariani, Lola, Nata Varazi, Tamar Gurgenidze, Tamara Lortkipanidze

At The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

February 05 — March 15, 2022

The exhibition is comprised of works by young female artists Gvantsa Jishkariani, Lola, Nata Varazi, Tamar Gurgenidze and Tamara Lortkipanidze and muses on such hefty topics such as womanhood in patriarchal culture, assumptions and expectations to look up to, moulds to mutate into, and promises to fulfil.

However, instead of posing these as ideals to look up to, presented artists, with their strong energies and self-contained signature styles, challenge and pervert the supposed truths. Heartfelt journeys through generational traumas and personal quests for healing, absurd harmony of fragile beauty and yet fatal danger, poetry and sentimentality of female comradeship.

— The Why Not Gallery

Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Lola, Untitled, 2022 Acrylic on unstretched canvas, attached to laser-cut iron, metal hangers 91x135.5 cm
Lola, Pencils and ink on paper, vintage frame without glass, cotton thread. 35x49cm with frame, 20x28cm without frame
Lola, Untitled, 2022 Acrylic on stretched canvas 76.5x65 cm
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Nata Varazi, Soft Tendencies of Blending in, 2022 Oil on stretched canvas, wood details. 71x61cm
Nata Varazi, What’s been hiding for so long, 2021 Oil on canvas
Nata Varazi, What it feels like to be a girl, 2021 Oil on stretched canvas 50x70cm
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Tamara Lortkipanidze, Full Moon from their Window, 2020 Acrylic on stretched canvas 119 x 90 cm
Tamara Lortkipanidze, Gossip Dinner, 2021 Acrylic on stretched canvas 116 x 90 cm
Tamara Lortkipanidze, The Snail, The Ring and The Confession, 2021 Acrylic on stretched canvas 100x85cm
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Gvantsa Jishkariani, I chew my solid blood, 2022 Natural stone mosaic, (Marble, Travertine, Onyx) on plywood. Broken Beer bottle glass with Topaz, Agate and Prehnite beads 48x 31 cm, additional 70cm for the beads
Gvantsa Jishkariani, Never suffer for free, 2022 Marble mosaic on plywood 18.5 x 18cm
Gvantsa Jishkariani, I was dancing in my dream and feared no-one. It felt majestic, it felt ecstatic, beautiful. I was exploding in joy.2022 Neon 10 x 900cm (Approximately), Dimensions variable
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view
Tamar Gurgenidze, Pregnant Women, 2017 Oil on canvas 99 x 131 cm
Tamar Gurgenidze, Pregnant Woman with a Mobile Phone, 2022 Glazed ceramics 29x16cm Edition 1/3 and 2/3
Tamar Gurgenidze, Pregnant Woman with a Mobile Phone, 2022 Glazed ceramics 29x16cm Edition 1/3 and 2/3
Sorry, No Flowers Heres, The Why Not Gallery, Exhibition view