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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

This Generation

Installation

Luka Lasareishvili

latex, rope, wood
2002
200x150x130

Attached to the wall is a 200 cm (79”) high object resembling a large, powerless penis. Around its head a rope is tied, much like on an execution scene. The rope goes up towards a winch which is connected to the ceiling. The other side of the rope is freely falling on the floor. Visitors can pull the penis up by using the rope and hang it, at the same time however the impotent penis becomes a powerful, erect thing. If one lets go of the rope, the giant penis will helplessly fall down again on its own testicles.