In December Women’s Fund
and art organisation Geoair have held an exhibition Unlimited
Possibilities. The tandem of the two organisations might be surprising for
the people who do not know the Geoair well enough. A team of enthusiasts aim at
tackling the social problems with the help of art. Their 10 years old biography
is full of exciting projects directed at awakening the Georgian society. Hence,
the very last one was not an exclusion. The Women’s Fund had found several
women with different disabilities willing to get qualification and start a
career. The exposition put together by the Geoair team was composed of artists who
agreed to donate their work for such an important cause. This act of charity is
particularly important, as the raised money won’t be a singular help, rather a
means of putting these women back into the reality of the country. Moreover, it
acts as a great precedent for other people who thought they were destined for a
lifetime in the dark of their apartments. Unfortunately, this is the grim reality
of Georgian life for people with disabilities in there. As Nino Chubinishvili,
one of the participating artists has cleverly noted, the society that
shuts these people is disabled and dysfunctional rather than these people.
Juna Godishvili, 31
Juna wants to advance her knowledge of English and then tutor the
elementary school children. She has completed the accounting and computer courses
and has an experience of working in various NGOs, even though having a Marfan
syndrome.
Marina Gogoberishvili has been in a
wheelchair for some time already; she has met her husband (also in a
wheelchair) in the rehabilitation centre. They have a daughter together. Already
in a wheelchair, Marina entered the faculty of physics and mathematics in the
university and later transferred to the faculty of fine arts. Last year she participated in the beauty contest where
a girl in the wheelchair made her hair and make up.
Levan Mindiashvili
Levan Mindiashvili
Nana Samushia is 26 and she is the member of “Woman and Reality”. By profession she is a designer. Nana
is diagnosed with the total monoplegia of the upper right limb. Nana sews,
embroiders, knits, paints. Ana Zakhvatova and Natela
Gamidova are also members of “Woman and
Reality” and are among those people who wish to learn Knitting, embroidery and
sewing. Ana has the left lower limb poliomyelitis and Natela has the spine
trauma.
These women are heroes that despite the
indifference and negligence on behalf of society do not lose the optimism and
still manage to look forward to future.
Geoair has contacted the artists they
cooperate with and find interesting; some of them are quite well known and
widely admired (Yuri Mechitov, Karaman Kutateladze, Mamuka Japaridze)
Lado Pochkhua
Murtaz Shvelidze
Lado Pochkhua and Murtaz Shvelidze have donated art from their recent exhibitions.Others, like Luka Akimidze are the newcomers to the field. The
project has its website where the story of these women as well as the catalogue
for the art is available. It is also possible to purchase the art online, which
for Georgia is yet another innovatory idea. The art enthusiasts are given a
chance to buy some amazing art for quite reasonable prices and also feeling
their social responsibility fulfilled. The sale will go on for a month.
Moreover, it is a great innovation for the
Georgian art market to have an opportunity to shop online for art. I sincerely
hope any of the local galleries adopts the idea and starts selling online.
Some of the art from the catalogue:
Nino Sekhniashvili
Kote Sulaberidze
Mariam Sitchinava
Kote Jincharadze
Nino Chubinishvili (Chubika)
HERE IS THE LINK FOR THE PROJECT, THERE YOU CAN FIND THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PURCHASING ART: http://unlimitedabilities.wordpress.com/
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