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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

Archive of Academic Writings

2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

All that Moves

Sculpture

Nino Sekhniashvili

silk, polyester
2014

Exhibition Re-Museum, National Gallery Tbilisi, 2014 

The sculpture by Nino Sekhniashvili recalls the connection between two historically colonial institutions: the museum and the zoo. Her wild animal is made with silk, a refined material. Thus Sekhniashvili’s amusing gesture of hanging gorilla may be referring to the victory of nature over culture.