This project focuses on the conditions under which a sense of freedom can emerge within the city, as dominant regimes of visibility and control begin to loosen. We are drawn to zones that allow for distance from patriarchal norms and political directives—spaces where one can simply be, regardless of origin, gender, or status.

Such a space is found in the unofficial part of Mtatsminda Park in Tbilisi: a liminal area between the city below and the "official" amusement park above. At once close and hidden, difficult to access and therefore loosely regulated, this place becomes a site where different groups coexist, shaping a distinct social landscape—one in which the park itself takes part as an active agent.

The slope did not always appear as it does today: the forest that now seems wild was artificially planted as part of a Soviet-era landscaping plan. Following the idea that space is produced through social practices, we understand this area by the ways it is used, moved through, and inhabited. Its layered character allows for moments of stepping aside, improvisation, and quiet resistance, making it a terrain where political, ecological, and personal histories intersect.

Through photographing people, terrain, and traces of mutual influence between the human and the natural, we observe how presences within this landscape form identities and ways of being together.

In collaboration with Vladimir Seleznev