FRAGILE DISTANCE: An Exhibition Project in Tbilisi
Photography and Generative Imagery: The Experience of Presence
Date: 31 July — 28 August 2026
Venue: 112 Mikheil Tsinamdzghvrishvili Street, Tbilisi
Curator: Vladimir Shishak
Project: FOR YOUR HOME Gallery
Featuring: 10 WORKS, 4 ARTISTS, AND AN ORIGINAL PROJECT
About the Exhibition
An Exhibition Project in Tbilisi
FRAGILE DISTANCE was a group exhibition of photography and generative imagery presented by FOR YOUR HOME Gallery in Tbilisi from 31 July to 28 August 2026.
Ten works by four artists and an original project by FOR YOUR HOME explored different degrees of proximity—from detached observation of space and collective movement to direct contact with the body and emotional states.
Photographic and generative works were brought together within a unified spatial dramaturgy. The project posed the question: what changes in our relationship with an image once the way it was created becomes known? The camera and the generative model were considered not as opposites, but as different tools for shaping the distance between the artist, the image, and the viewer.
The lens, screen, algorithm, and glass became mediators between the individual and the world, helping to maintain a safe distance. The exhibition examined this protective mechanism by narrowing the gap between corporeality and the simulacrum, space and time, and invited viewers to reconsider the value of human presence and sensory experience.
Curatorial Dramaturgy
Three Acts of Fragile Distance
The spatial route unfolded as a movement from the initial separation—through the point where photography and generative imagery converged—to a state of silence and grounding.
ACT I
Initial Space and Physical Separation
The exhibition’s trajectory began with an abstract, boundless horizon of water and a vector leading into the space. In Lola Graham’s Axis, a line directed the gaze towards the horizon, transforming the landscape into a vector of movement. In the two works from Nadezhda Filippova’s Fault Line series, geological and internal shifts became conduits between the body and a changing landscape. The body ceased to be an observer outside the frame. Placed within the scene, it gained volume and form, moved from point A to point B, and experienced separation as a physical reality.
Axis · Fault Line I · Fault Line II
ACT II
Point of Convergence
In the second section, the dialogue around corporeality continued in the space of everyday life, permeated by technological and social change. Generative images entered this conversation, revealing one of the paradoxes of the digital age.
The curator compared the use of artificial intelligence to the work of assistants in Renaissance workshops and the delegated artistic practices of the twentieth century. The collective unconscious brought into the process by generative models nevertheless remained subordinate to the artist’s creative will.
A live dance around a fire and intertwined hands at a “generative” party; the blue glow of the nude body of a real woman and a generated scream at the limits of expression built momentum towards the climax. In BURGUNDY, sheep interlocked like the teeth of a zip became the point where the real and the artificial, the embodied and the disembodied, converged.
At the same time, the simulacrum was not entirely devoid of materiality: it arose from the physical reality of server hardware, electric current, and light waves, all directed by artistic intent.
Fire Dance · The Dance That Never Was · Shining · Vulnerability · BURGUNDY
ACT III
The Givenness of Being and Eternity
The final section became an exhalation and a grounding moment. Sky in the Ocean returned the gaze to the water’s surface and its reflection, while in Severance a Japanese temple garden was seen through glass—a boundary that both connected the viewer with the space and separated them from direct contact. Time here was no longer the same as it had been a second before. Life continued as an ongoing process of accepting the inevitable fragility of the distance between the individual and the world.
Sky in the Ocean · Severance
16 August 2026 · A Space for Live Conversation
A curatorial talk held as part of FRAGILE DISTANCE explored the exhibition’s concept, the perception of contemporary imagery, and the artistic practices of the featured artists.
The conversation extended the project’s spatial dramaturgy through direct dialogue with the audience. At its centre was the question of how knowing the origin of an image changes the viewer’s relationship with photography and generative art.
Artists and Works · Seven Photographic and Three Generative Works
Within the project’s overall dramaturgy, they entered into dialogue, drawing the corporeal and the incorporeal, the real and the artificial, closer together. The titles link to the individual artwork pages.
An Original Project by FOR YOUR HOME
BURGUNDY, 2026
Generative digital art · AI · 1/1
The Dance That Never Was, 2026
Generative digital art · AI · 1/1
Vulnerability, 2025
Generative digital art · AI · 1/1
Lola Graham
Severance, 2025
Colour photograph · 1/1
Axis, 2023
Black-and-white photograph · 1/1
Bulat Asyanov
Fire Dance, 2024
Black-and-white photograph · 1/1
Sky in the Ocean, 2024
Colour photograph
Nadezhda Filippova
Fault Line I, 2025
Black-and-white photograph · 1/1
Fault Line II, 2025
Black-and-white photograph · 1/1
Anastasiya Milinets
Shining, 2023
Colour photographic diptych · 1/1
