Our wine and our alphabet are unique expressions of Georgian identity. Intertwining and uniting them has become a central challenge for me as an artist.

Saperavi is an endemic grape variety with distinctive qualities. Traditionally, it is used for colouring and giving depth of colour – something that its very name suggests. For this reason, painting with red wine has become for me a form of creative expression, a kind of painting in itself.

In this performance, I want to tint the minor notes that accompany the injustices unfolding in the world with the major tones and optimism of red wine, opposing the sorrowful melody that appears in our imagination, where the lowered, melancholic tone is confronted by the living colour of wine.

Painting with wine is a biologically pure, pleasant, and living process, where the artwork we create changes together with us.

(2013)