Chiefly illustrated.

Limited edition of 250 copies.

Includes an original photograph signed and dated by the artist.

"This book was produced in the context of Art Dubai's Marker, a curated not-for-profit gallery programme that concentrates each year on a particular theme of geography (www.artdubai.ze./marker) "--Colophon.

This publication is a part of the project Pirimze by Sophia Tabatadze You can see the development of the project on : www.pirimze.blogspot.com. The 2014 edition of Marker is curated by Slavs and Tatars and takes Central Asia and the Caucasus as its focus.--onestarpress.com

"The Pirimze building was built in 1971 in Soviet Georgia. The six-storey building provided working space for all kinds of handicrafts. Basically everything could be repaired there: shoes, watches, glasses, jewellery, bags, suitcases, belts, hair dryers, kitchen machines, etc.. Knives and scissors were sharpened, hair was cut and shoes were polished. Tailors and sewers of fur and leather created individual garments for customers. Pirimze was well-known and its services were used by everyone in the city and the surrounding villages. The interior of the building was amazing. All the craftspeople had their own private booths. These booths had personalized interiors - decorated with snippets from glossy, foreign magazines, pin-ups and hand-drawn advertisements. As a result of her visual fascination of the site, Sophia Tabatadze decided to reconstruct it while the memories of the people who once worked there were still vivid. After meeting with them, it became clear that the destruction of Pirimze, viewed in a larger context, concealed alternative motives as well as social and political agendas of the different players involved in this process. All of the craftspeople were ejected in the summer of 2007, and Pirimze was torn down. The Pirimze Plaza now stands in its place."--www.boell-brandenburg.de website, viewed Aug. 22, 2017.

Interior: black-and-white; Binding: glue bound; Cover: paperback, color, glossy finish.

In Georgian with English parallel text.

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