Data Chigholashvili

RU Exhibition: Domesticated Join us for our first group exhibition of the 2026 season at the RU House on Governors Island (@governorsisland ), featuring works by RU resident artists: Erika Malzoni (@malzonierika ) and Dániel Szalai (@daniel_szalai ), curated by Data Chigholashvili (@datachme ), Curator of Residency Unlimited. 🎊Opening: Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11am-5pm 📅 On view: May 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 | 11am-5pm 📍Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island To Domesticate: “to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company” – reads a definition in the Cambridge Dictionary. Perhaps one of the most extreme examples of domestication is the silkworm (Bombyx mori). While this is not the oldest species subjected to human control, over 5,000 years of domestication resulted in these insects having lost the ability to fly, camouflage, and find food – entirely depending on humans for survival. This exhibition does not include direct references to silkworms, but the conceptual background is strongly informed by sericulture and its metaphors, which will most likely emerge in curatorial walkthroughs by Data Chigholashvili taking place on May 16, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. By bringing together Malzoni and Szalai’s distinctive themes and approaches, the exhibition explores interconnections between domestication and classification, questioning anthropocentrism and how far it can stretch. Together, these works invite visitors to explore our relational patterns towards animate and inanimate worlds, hence, think about human need – and the limits thereof – to classify, control, accumulate, and utilize. Also, in the spirit of the famous “chicken and egg” problem, the exhibition ponders the question of what came first: classification or domestication? #ResidencyUnlimited #ArtExhibition #Opening #governorsisland

Of memory and scent of spring from some time ago. There are not a lot of lilacs in NYC, but I follow the scent and find them.

RU Exhibition: The Edges of Layers 🎉 Opening: Tues, March 24 2026 | 6 – 8 PM 📅 On view: March 25 - 26 | 11 AM – 6 PM 📍 Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street, Brooklyn NY Residency Unlimited invites you to the group exhibition “The Edges of Layers” curated by Data Chigholashvili (@datachme ) and featuring works by RU artists Slava George (@theserpentcircle ), Chris Glabb (@chrisglabb ), Adi Oren (@adioren.art ) and Florence Vacher (@florence_vacher_studio ). Exploring layers of both materials and ideas, create the main line of thought in this group exhibition. Using paints, textiles, prints, or digital images is essential in the artists’ works as much as combining various symbols, memories, and narratives into them. It takes delicate work to make an assemblage, when each material, before the other, conditions the result, and in doing so, also interplays with respective concepts and stories. At the same time, as they amass, subtleties, edges, and fine lines emerge, allowing a careful viewer to discover the process of layering. The works in the exhibition explore this through color, shape, and material, while reflecting on personal narratives and collective remembrances. Therefore, they suggest unraveling the complexities of memory and [dis]embodiment, including moments when symbols blur in the overwhelming flow of information or the fast rhythm of life. Considering the above said, this exhibition invites spectators to take a moment, have a close look, and explore the edges of – material and symbolic – layers they encounter. #ResidencyUnlimited #ContemporaryArt #GroupExhibition #NYCExhibitions

Of movement and accidental photos @tamrikaatrahasis once wrote to me that being in the process of movement is good. I have this new phone with a camera button that I often click instead of the other one that locks the phone. In the photos of this trip, I discovered quite a few accidental ones from all the walking. I've seen @anukito often post images like this, and I think there's some beauty to it. I made a selection of those, and a few random other photos and videos from the trip on the way back.

Of textile, memory, and wind (and also ocean and horizon). I will be posting short videos. It's part of a visual narrative I've been working on (and probably will be working on for a while). It also connects to the mail art project in between physical and virtual spaces. If you'd like to join this mail art project, DM me or send me a postcard, or even better - a long handwritten letter with some poetry.

As the sun was setting, we went to @skyspace_takhut by @jamesturell in José Ignacio, Uruguay. Light transformed the sky selection, the circle often changed, and we left uplifted into the night. As most memorable things, it has to be experienced in person.

Of orienting in the city with plants, finding a mulberry, facing portraits and masks, walking by the water, emotions of a very familiar city as calm waves in another city very far, and of course, empanadas, lots of empanadas, and a lot more on a trip that we jokingly dreamt of many years ago with my dears @nini.palavandishvili and @tamaragrama Snippets from the trip to Montevideo Masks at MAPI – The Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art Petrona Viera’s self-portrait from the National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)   Also, maybe, I'll be posting more now.

New year, old me, peaceful day with and by @nini.palavandishvili

Thoughts on a Hot New Year’s Eve   Plants, Roots under ground, And those aerial. Uprooted, Replanted, And those growing afar. Connections, Spread in space, And those in time. Monstera, First seen as a child, And that with my mom. And that with a friend. And this that covered me (not). Memories, Carried with one, And those that are made now. Buenos Aires, 2025

How I turned into a painting-like image when photographed as a reflection   Reflected through Richter’s Six Gray Mirrors at Dia Beacon Photographed by @makachkhaidze

The video work “Somehow, Elsewhere” No.3 will be showing at @residencyunlimited for their upcoming show “Pass, Memory, Pause” curated by Data Chigholashvili @datachme Wednesday, November 19 | 5:00 - 8:00 pm 17 November 20 - 21 | 11:00 am - 5:00 pm featuring RU artists:Sadrie Alves (@sadriealves ), Ira Eduardovna (@eduardovnaira ), Joan Horrach (@horrach.joan ), Monika Jenowein (@monikajenowein ), Ana Loureiro (@analoureirofernandes ), and Adriel Visoto (@adrielvisoto ). Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street Brooklyn, NY

RU Exhibition: Pass, Memory, Pause 🎉 Wednesday, November 19 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm
📅 November 20 – 21 | 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
📍 Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY Please join us for the group exhibition featuring RU artists: Sadrie Alves (@sadriealves ), Ira Eduardovna (@eduardovnaira ), Joan Horrach (@horrach.joan ), Monika Jenowein (@monikajenowein ), Ana Loureiro (@analoureirofernandes ), and Adriel Visoto (@adrielvisoto ). The opening reception will also include “…the way you say it.” – a participatory project by Ana Loureiro. “Pass, Memory, Pause” is curated by Data Chigholashvili (@datachme ), Curator of Residency Unlimited. Fast passages  through cities and buildings,  symbols and stories,  not lots of strolling,  just like scrolling,  often doomscrolling,  fading memories and stories,  one after another. A fragmentary remembrance or certain forgetfulness emerges with the current speedy rhythm of life, particularly so in a busy city like New York. It has a certain affinity with memories being like “insta-stories,” and scrolling through social media or one’s smartphone photo album. People often remark with surprise that time goes really fast during these past years, or how quickly the end of 2025 has already approached us. “Transitory Gestures”, this year’s first RU resident group show, took place in March. Reflecting on transit as a crucial part of residencies, it explored complexities between time, space, and body. It’s curious that a part of that text was written around daylight savings in spring, and this one – around when clocks are set back again. “Pass, Memory, Pause” also results from meditations on movement – as an essential aspect of residencies, as experienced in daily life, and as navigated through memories and symbols. Artworks in the exhibition present a selection of resident artists’ works –  those created elsewhere before, continued and made into new works while in NYC, or created entirely during their residencies at RU. Together, they invite you to reflect on passing, pausing, remembering, forgetting, and how one goes about these.