"Costumes and Collapse"
Public Program
26.04.2025
State Silk Museum, Tbilisi
State Silk Museum, Tbilisi
Participants: Aiganym Mukhamejan, Aziza Shadenova , GOD ERA, Levani, Nina Vekua, Selin Davasse, Tamra, Uta Bekaia
Curator: Hoda El Shakry and Leah Feldman
Costumes and Collapse explores how textiles and wearables refashion our relationship to imperial, social and environmental collapse. Inspired by Max Tilke’s ethnographic illustrations of the Caucasus and Central Asia, which catalogued imperial ethnographic dress, the show intervenes in this orientalist legacy by reimagining costumes as active sites of political resistance through masking, disguise, and subversion.
Sponsored by: Ria Keburia Residency and the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago
Curator: Hoda El Shakry and Leah Feldman
Costumes and Collapse explores how textiles and wearables refashion our relationship to imperial, social and environmental collapse. Inspired by Max Tilke’s ethnographic illustrations of the Caucasus and Central Asia, which catalogued imperial ethnographic dress, the show intervenes in this orientalist legacy by reimagining costumes as active sites of political resistance through masking, disguise, and subversion.
Sponsored by: Ria Keburia Residency and the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago
