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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

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

Untitled (View on the installation)

Installation

Tamusa Zarkua

Tar, sponge
2019
290x330 cm.
Photo: Photo credits: Guram Kapanadze

I have spent a lot of time on the roof of my house, the roof of which is made out of gudron. It was there that I got the first impulse to apply this material. I liked its softness and perceived it as a fabric. Goudron is a very diverse material, it looks like a solid crystal, a stone, then, it melts and becomes a liquid. I even had a roof over my head, a symbol of protection, and I had a weird feeling when the “roof” (or gudron), which is a metaphor for such “guarantees,” melted in front of me and became a thin mass. From this work I have always thought that already well-established ideas can always move. Sometimes I write texts for my works, again to make sure I understand what I am doing. One of the phrases in the text of this installation is - "I have never been so thankful for a roof that saved me in absurdity, but it saved me well."

At.ge, You are fully accepted here - interview with Tamar Zarkua, 2020