Black Spot
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 City Hall avoids enacting regulations on fuel quality and replacing outdated transport.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.