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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

Bypassing

Installation

Lia Bagrationi

transparent plastic tubes, context-specific installation
2018

Clay is a medium that encapsulates two worlds intersecting. Due to this unique quality, it holds multiple layers of cultural data from the beginnings of times. in the spaces that you move through, you bypass this data - the imprints of millenniums flowing through plastic veins, depicted and encrypted via cultural codes in clay. In the cyber era, when information travels at unimaginable speeds, we are faced with dangers of perceiving just the digital, while all that is visible and tangible remains unseen.