Drawing on the work of two local artists, Daro Sulakauri and Mishiko Sulakauri, the exhibition offers a compelling combination of visual data and intimate stories to explore the ongoing conflict over seized lands and its impact on indigenous communities living on the edge of the border. The physical information presented in the exhibition will highlight the lived experiences of indigenous communities who are often marginalized and silenced in discussions about land ownership and resource extraction. Visitors will hear directly from those who have experienced the conflict firsthand, including stories of loss, displacement, and trauma. The show explores the power dynamics at play in the conflict, including the oppressive tactics used by occupiers to maintain control over the land and its resources. At the he art of the exhibition is the recognition that the political border is not simply a line on a map, but a lived reality for the local people living on the edge of Georgian villages. The exhibition will encourage visitors to reflect on their own relationship to borders, boundaries, and the land, as well as to consider the broader implications of the conflict for indigenous communities and the environment. 

Mikheil (Mishiko) Sulakauri (Georgia, 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

His research explores critical issues that transcend histories, borders, power dynamics, environmental and social trance. His work questions systems of consumption, production, and human interaction, driven and informed by auto-ethnography.

He is co-founder of art collective Tsru (ცრუ) (2017) generating art in the very heart of the city, researching how Georgian typography and culture is layered through time. He has developed site-specific installations in Kharkiv’s Nuclear Research Institute and Tbilisi’s underground Metrostations. He was nominated in the field of visual arts at Tsinandali Award for Young Artists andScientists 2019 and participated in the Oxygen Biennials (2019,2021) in Tbilisi , Kunstraum LLC 2020 (NYC), Kunstlerhouse Faktor 2019 (Hamburg, GER), Artisterium Contemporary Art Festival 2020, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2018. In 2021 was the first year he curated aResidency Program for Museum Of Human Achievement ( Austin, Texas ). 

Daro Sulakauri is a Georgian photojournalist. Using mixed media with documentary andcontemporary approach, her work chronicles the social and political issues in the Caucasus. She graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York, where she wasawarded the John and Mary Phillips Scholarship and ICP Director's Fund for her work on theanti-war movement in New York. Upon completing her studies, she returned to the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia to document a hidden narrative of the Chechen conflict in an outpost of refugees which won her Young Photographers in Caucasus Award from Magnum Photos in 2009. Sulakauri’s work on early marriages in Georgia was awarded the first prize by

LensCulture, EU prize for journalism and Human Right House in London. She was included in a list of 30 under 30 Women Photographers and Photo District News' 30 emerging photographers to watch. Daro was a participant of the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2017 and Reuters Photojournalism grantee. Sulakauri is a recent Catchlight global fellow 2023. Her work has appeared in exhibitions worldwide and can be seen in publications for The New

York Times, National Geographic, Forbes, Der Spiegel, Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, Geo Magazine among others. She currently lives and works in Georgia.

The exhibition was made possible by the support of Catchlight.io