Exhibition in Batumi draws attention to transgender people's rights

The art project "Gradation" in Batumi, dedicated to problems of transgender people in Georgia, was visited by more than 200 people in five days, organizers have reported. The exhibition allowed transgender people, who occurred especially vulnerable in the context of the pandemic and COVID-19 restrictions, to declare their rights, according to the people who took part in the project.

The Batumi Centre for Contemporary Art has hosted the "Gradation" exhibition, which collected works of transgender people's problems during the pandemic, the edition named "Batumelebi" reported on March 13. The author of the exhibition, the painter, Uta Bekaya, wanted to show people the life of transgender people during the pandemic, "when most members of the community were left without their minimum income; many of them even had no home to lock themselves in."

The organizers of the exhibition – the NGO "Women's Initiatives Support Centre" (WISC) and the NGO "Propaganda.Network" – told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that for the first time such exhibition was shown in Tbilisi in November 2019.

"We wanted to draw public attention to problems of transgender people. It has long been agreed to hold this year's exhibition in Batumi. During the pandemic, the problems of transgender people have become even more aggravated," Natan Gogolashvili from the WISC told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 18, 2021 at 00:15 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.