Permitted Vulnerability brings together Gvantsa Jishkariani’s textile works, embroidered slogans, and references to the visual culture of post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Her materials come from places often dismissed as too decorative, too kitsch, or too ordinary: bourgeois tapestries, interiors, mosaics, propaganda murals, jewelry, and the urban leftovers of the 1990s.
The works are torn apart, rebuilt, and made to speak. Phrases borrowed from protest, pop culture, and theory appear across the surfaces, shifting between anger, humor, and discomfort. It’s sharp, funny, and a little trashy in the best way — a show about taking the aesthetics that shaped you and pulling them back into your own han