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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

Black Spot

Video,Object

Mishiko Sulakauri

digital video, car's smoke on paper
2019

Black Spot*

 Public transport is the main source of air pollution in Tbilisi. City Hall avoids enacting regulations on fuel quality and replacing outdated transport. To this day problem is unsolved and the air remains poisoned. In the first part of the work, the artist helps transport show its emotions and translates them into monochromatic images. Images that reflect the sky and atmosphere of Tbilisi. In the second part of the work, the artist carefully puts the gathered pollution into the envelope and sends the black spot to the mayor of Tbilisi.

*Black Spot appears in Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Treasure Island. In this novel, pirates send the black spot (paper one side of which is black) to the guilty individual as a warning.