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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

Mass Hallucination of Still Modernity

Installation

Zurab Arabidze

2014

Life is nothing more than the expectations for a better one - waiting for specific results that never appear. The modern life is a tense expectation.

When strained expectations result in nothing, it’s followed by laughter. At that moment, a person becomes aware of his/her incompatibility with the outer world and realizes that there is nothing left but selfirony. Irony is an eternal chaos of a clear mind. It outlines key factors and remains above conventions.

If a person is proud of his/her actions today, tomorrow that can change, since results are always different from original intentions. It is the irony of history, which is the cyclic process of the impossibility of “uploading” one’s own the future.


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