Grandma’s House
lene Pichkhadze is a Tbilisi-based artist currently studying Visual Art and Design at the Free University of Tbilisi.
Primarily working with oil paints, she also experiments with various mediums and materials. Her work conveys deeply personal and often painful experiences through expressive and symbolic imagery. Recurring themes in her art include sexuality, aggression, violence, femininity, and pain.
"My Grandma’s House Didn’t Always Look Like This" is an installation dedicated to her grandparents, inspired by childhood memories in a small Georgian village. Pichkhadze views places as vessels of memory, and this installation reconstructs her grandparents’ home, revealing the stories it carries through time. Each event has left its mark, transforming the house into a space of strange, dysfunctional forms—its structural elements resembling scars on a body.
This house is a place of happiness, loss, and trauma. The pink color lingers as if to suggest that nothing ever happened.
Primarily working with oil paints, she also experiments with various mediums and materials. Her work conveys deeply personal and often painful experiences through expressive and symbolic imagery. Recurring themes in her art include sexuality, aggression, violence, femininity, and pain.
"My Grandma’s House Didn’t Always Look Like This" is an installation dedicated to her grandparents, inspired by childhood memories in a small Georgian village. Pichkhadze views places as vessels of memory, and this installation reconstructs her grandparents’ home, revealing the stories it carries through time. Each event has left its mark, transforming the house into a space of strange, dysfunctional forms—its structural elements resembling scars on a body.
This house is a place of happiness, loss, and trauma. The pink color lingers as if to suggest that nothing ever happened.
