“Supra of Her Own“ - an exibition about gender-based violence against women organized in Georgia in 2014

summer. The exhibition offered a reflection about social invisibility of women’s painful experiences and propose new possibilities of making it public.Supra of Her Own is a colloboration between an art-ist - Tamuna Chabashvili (Georgeia/Netherlands), an antropologist - Agnieszka Dudrak (Poland/Switzerland), a Georgian NGO (Anti-Violence Network of Georgia), and a grassroots initiative . The exhibition was also hosted 5 days of perfor-mances by Mareike Wenzel (Germany), a lecture by Nadia Tsulukidze (Georgia/Netherlands), and sound unstallation by Eliza Proszcuk (Poland)

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In partiarchal societies, many women’s experiences remain invisible, hidden, taboo, or even nameless. The axhibi-tion became a temporary, open space, resembling Virginia Woolf ’s a Room of One’s Own, where diverse testimonies of abuse will become visible and open for intepretetation and discussion.

Inspired by the traditional Georgian dinner- a supra - orgaizators placed on metaphorical table that which is gen-erally banned from the table - stories of women whoo experienced gender-based violence. The project conceives of supra as something more than a male-dominat-ed and suppressive performance of social norms. The idea that supra can be an impro-vised performance where deep, presonal feel-ings can ve expressed publicly in an atmosphere of hope , of laughter, of creativity and freedom.

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Supra patterned with words Me in Georgian

Supra with quotes of women experenced gender-based violence