GARBBAH
Pauline is a multimedia artist she lives in Georgia since march 2020. She is a self-taught artist who practices Vipassana meditation and incorporates her Buddhist beliefs into her art. Her work is a political statement for an ecologically conscious world, and she believes that contact with nature can solve many problems. She sculpts objects with empty space to aid personal processes and takes pictures by listening.
Embodying emptiness
Pauline Garbbah is an artist who has an unconventional approach to art, incorporating her Buddhist beliefs into her work. As a self-taught artist, she learns mostly by observing and has been practicing Vipassana meditation for six years. Her art is a political statement towards a deeply ecological world, with the belief that being in contact with our own nature can solve many problems.
Garbbah's artistic philosophy is centered on the idea that art is a language that any human being can understand, and beauty is healing. She embodies emptiness, creating space for people's personal processes, and sculpts objects with empty space. Her photography is focused on listening rather than shooting. She also offers her body as a vessel for performance or research.
Garbbah's path towards art has been shaped by a wide range of experiences and studies, including psychology, theatre, and community building. Through her in-depth research on peak experiences and death narratives, Garbbah has delved into the depths of human existence, exploring the ways in which we confront and make sense of our mortality. Her studies in theatre and movement have helped her hone her craft, allowing her to use her body as a tool for expression and creativity.
Garbbah's experiences working in community-based projects have taught her the value of collaboration and the power of DIY approaches. She is committed to creating art that is accessible and understandable to all, seeing it as a universal language that can speak to the human experience in profound ways. In all of her work, Garbbah seeks to embody emptiness, creating a space for personal reflection and growth.
Performance
Pauline Garbbha & Natia Chikvaidze, filmed by sofyasoofya
05.03.2021, Fotografia gallery, Tbilisi
Natia is a local artist, born in Racha (close to Rioni valley). Pauline is from Russia. We are artists from different fields, different countries & backgrounds, but in the attentive space of the performance the Dialog is possible. We are two women and clay is the material which frees the subconscious (mythological) material easily. In this performance we experienced and observed lots of topics connected with death, power, sexuality, violence.
We took the soil from Rioni and just followed it. The canvas is the result of performance. Rioni valley is the place where Georgian governement are building Namakhvani project, which leads to the ecological and social disasters.