Broken Symbolism current exhibition at Space Gallery, Nizhny Tagil. A series of documentary excerpts from southwestern Georgia that deal with the unspoken historical past. Inspired by the poems of Elene Dariani, the frag- ments open an abstract dialogue between female identity. Dariani who is assumed to be the pseudo- nym of Elene Bakradze (1897–1979) arguably the first woman in Georgia who wrote candidly about female desire. The poems were published under the name of Paolo Iashvili, a well-known male poet by that time and one of the leaders of the Georgian symbolist movement. Elene Dariani’s poems were a subject of controversies, rumours and discussions for a long period of time. The Dariani mystery is symptomatic of the limitations placed on women in Georgia even as they were beginning to break down cultural and sexual barriers. Special thanks @niagvatua, @tica_makharadze and Evgeny Komuhin Limited edition prints, signed and numbered, available on request