Everyday objects and familiar materials can become carriers of new meanings.Art Foundation Anagi presents The Earth is Female, a major solo exhibition by Georgian contemporary artist Lia Bagrationi, opening on June 27, 2026.
Spanning three floors of the foundation, including the Main Curatorial Hall, Gallery Spaces, and Cinema Hall, the exhibition is one of the artist's most comprehensive presentations to date.
The Earth is Female brings together works from different stages of Bagrationi's artistic practice, offering a multilayered exploration of identity, memory, materiality, and the relationship between women, nature, and contemporary culture.
Through painting, graphic works, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, installation, and video art, the artist reflects on personal experience alongside collective cultural memory, drawing inspiration from Georgian heritage, classical art, mythology, and feminist thought.
At the heart of the exhibition is the idea that everyday objects and familiar materials can become carriers of new meanings. Bagrationi transforms domestic tools, textiles, and discarded materials into poetic and thought-provoking works that question consumer culture, gender roles, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.
A key highlight is The Futuristic Fresco, a large-scale installation created from thousands of plastic bags collected and hand-processed by the artist over many years. Combining sculpture and video, the work reimagines one of the defining materials of consumer society as a monumental visual statement on ecology, consumption, invisible labour, and the rituals of contemporary life.
Rather than presenting a conventional feminist narrative, The Earth is Female invites visitors to reflect on the evolving relationship between female experience, artistic creation, history, and nature.
Opening: June 27, 2026, 7:00 PM
On view: June 27 - September 1, 2026
Curators: Konstantine Bolkvadze, Mariam Shergelashvili, Lia Bagrationi