MARISHA URUSHADZE - "YOUR BODY WAS MADE TO ENDURE" presented by

Marisha Urushadze is a young Georgian model and visual artist. Alongside her successful international modeling career, Marisha is in constant search of various forms of self-expression. It’s interesting how her graphics, are telling sad stories with strange, sharp, surrealistic forms and silhouettes – a personal inner gallery of the artist. Impulsive and instinctive, unprofessional manipulations, heartfelt and unadorned, and at the same time, aesthetically pleasing shots give experimental works special authenticity and uniqueness. Fashion Film Festival Tbilisi premiered Marisha Urushadze’s experimental film “Your body was made to endure”.

While drawing, I start working without knowing where exactly I am going but, in this process, I understand why and what I am doing, I give the meanings and history to each work coming out of my mental health. I always think about drawing in everyday life, but I can ignore it and skip my thoughts about it. When I am feeling unwell, it’s one of the tools to express the pain, and then I can’t stop, it’s definitely the biggest therapy. But when it comes to the shooting, it’s more a desire to express.

I draw what bothers me, in all my paintings there is the pain or my inner problem, or my feeling, but broadly I guess there are no positive things in there, even now I don’t draw as I feel a little better.

Inspiration for me can be a strong emotion, caused by an everyday ordinary or some unusual situation, a person who will inspire me, the environment in which I am.

I guess I can call anything a drive to create, but the main thing is to have the mood. It always comes very fast, I don’t even know, I just suddenly want to, I may see something, which then makes me shoot something. Mostly it’s like that, I rarely think a lot about the idea, Actually, I have never shot anything pre-planned or pre-written like that, every time I tried, I failed, I guess whatever I shoot It’s obvious that it’s on the level of feelings, it comes naturally and so suddenly, I don’t even understand what it is, but it creates the mood.

I think that at this stage I am not ready to go into someone else’s stories. It’s truly an exploration of myself, but I am human too, and step by step I am exploring human nature. I have a great desire to collaborate with others and to find some interesting stories, but before that, I have a lot to learn and experience.

Besides the fact that my films are always very personal, ideologically there are always general events involved. Well, at least in my head it is like that, and I hope that others feel that as well and my work becomes viewer’s work as well.

I haven’t translated my film yet. The only thing I know is that it’s a depiction of the painful absurdity caused by this year’s events.

I guess I followed the poem that I used which is absurd in the end, but it touches on the themes that bother me, and I have not thought about it a lot. As I said, when I would re-watch it after a year, I would understand more what it was, why I shot it, and why it turned out to be the way it is. That’s why at this stage I truly don’t know, and I like that. I even discussed it with my friend lately, that I can sort my works as a series, it doesn't matter if it is a painting, a text, or video.

As when I work on something at the first stages I myself don’t know why or for what am I doing it, and after some time the works unite themselves, later when I reflect on my works I recall that period of time, I recall what bothered me, and by that, I understand via the signs why I shot that exact shot, why I called what it’s called... Now I can’t watch it. I will probably re-watch it after a while, I guess it will have an impact on my emotional level.