Magdalena Parsadaniszwili
I’m a master student of art history at the Department of Art History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. My main area of research is contemporary Georgian art in the context of post-communist Europe – a topic that is relatively unknown yet. My bachelor thesis is devoted to a comparative analysis of contemporary art in Latin America and post-communist Europe, where I compared theoretical apparatus of two currents – the horizontal art history by Piotr Piotrowski and the historiographic turn by Andrea Giunta. Last year, I received a grant “study@research” from Adam Mickiewicz University, which allowed me to conduct the basis of my master’s thesis. During my stay in Tbilisi, I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge of Georgian art history after the collapse of the Soviet Union. For those reasons, I plan to devote my whole master’s thesis to Georgian art. What interests me the most, is the use of the decolonial perspective in the analysis of Eastern European art, collective memory and the concept of denostalgia at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries.