In the mid-1990s at least two peculiar art exhibitions were held in Tbilisi.  One of them was called chemi tojinebi (‘My Dolls’), no one can remember what the other one was called, only that it happened 다운로드. What is peculiar about these exhibitions is that they were exhibitions of dolls, made by Georgian artists and intellectuals.  These exhibitions of dolls illustrate the emergent antinomies of Georgian urban life under postsocialism in several ways 다운로드. What could be more dissonant than the grim realities of everyday life in Tbilisi of the mid 1990s, a period of war, chaos, poverty, gloom, and the happy childlike figure of the doll 다운로드?

Shatirishvili, Z., and Manning, P. (2011). “Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labour”. Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories, and the Making of a World Area,edited by Bruce Grant & Lale Yalçın-Heckmann. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia 13 hiyobi 이미지. Berlin: LIT Verlag

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