Jana Romanova. Shvilishvili

Hand-made collectors edition of 67
15×32 cm
Hardcover (canvas)
106 pages, color
weight around 450 gr
4 plastic bags, a rope 1 meter long
Print 15×20 cm
A box
*each 10 copies are somehow different from each other

“Shvilishvili” is Georgian for “grandchild”, literally it could be translated as “a child of a child”. In this project, presented as book-object, the author questions the value of family photography and family ties themselfs in modern society through an attempt to unite her relatives from one blood line by photography. The family is divided between two countries — Russia and Georgia, — and the problems of it’s members on both sides of the border arise from the post-war political situation as well as the tragic story of a murder committed inside the family.