Maia Naveriani

Maia Naveriani (b. 1966, Tbilisi, Georgia) creates text-based drawing and neon installations that borrow from pop culture and everyday language. For New Hour, she presents a new site-specific neon installation in another corridor. By isolating sentences from street signs and advertisements, her work questions their original meaning and creates new, often absurd, associations. As one of the first Georgian artists to emigrate to the UK after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Naveriani’s work reflects on emigration, language, and motherhood, often through the lens of “Broken English” – the international language of the emigrant – in sharp, feminist statements.

Maia Naveriani
Word of Mouth, 2025
coloured neons
99 × 230 cm
courtesy of the artist