23/04/2026
Mako Lomadze — House of Soft Resistance
A project rooted in a place that shaped her early perception of the world.
In Samegrelo, at a family home where she spent her childhood summers, Mako Lomadze encountered nature for the first time — a place of reading, listening, and imagining.
In the early 1990s, during the civil unrest in Georgia, this landscape became a form of shelter. Like many families, they sought refuge here — under trees, within nature itself.
This experience remained not only as memory, but as a subconscious foundation.
Her sensitivity to form, her visual language, and her deep connection to green all emerge from this environment.
Nearby, an abandoned estate carries another layer of history — once belonging to the Dadiani family. After the arrival of the Red Army, the prince took his own life in its courtyard.
Yet despite this tragic past, the place remains, for the artist, a space of unexpected synthesis — where personal memory, history, and landscape coexist.
