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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

I The Foolish Bride

Installation

Mari Kalabegashvili

Gold glazed ceramics, flour, birch tree juice
2021
100 x 150 x 70 cm cm.

You’re entering

My homage

For yet another bride,

whose name was not remembered.

But transformed into a symbol

Of 11 birch trees

- A place

Where she would rest

For the last time.

And as the shaman king,

Whose braids went down to his ankles,

Would adore her breasts

While feeding their son,

I will take a sip of her milk

And prepare a feast,

Where we look through the history

- A narrative

That could be ours.