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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

Project: Apartment #5 (photo documentation)

Performance

Boullion

2010

Apartment #5 held in Ijevan (Armenia) was the research about former luxury resort town transformed in devastated space after new social circumstances. Artists offered to the residents of the residential house change the direction of the door eyes thus open it for voyeuristic exhibition sharing only the entrance of the private space for the society. Ijevan apartment project revealed that the most of the residents left their homes after the system changed. Changing the direction of the door eyes shared only the entrance of the private space to the society, but even these insignificant scenes were enough to see the world, people create for themselves and show to other people close to them. Interior seen from door eye came in contrast with the exterior profile; more or less furnished, repaired, clean apartments seemed absolutely independent from ruined entrance and almost destroyed city.