Museum of matches

"Chavchavadze's museum includes a host of things that seemed broken beyond all mending and assembles them in their lovely brokenness. It has evolved through her whole career as interdisciplinary artist and has taken the forms of mixed-media paintings and assemblages, magazine articles, and a full-scale installation of a 'one-room Cold War Museum' that has recently reopened in Brooklyn along with a website. Now, in book form as a 'pocket museum,' Chavchavadze has 'matched' the stories and images that rhyme in her experience. She opens windows into several historical moments, especially the Cold War in which she grew up, and the views from those windows are alive and intensely felt." --Publisher description.