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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

Container (installation photo)

Installation

Luka Lasareishvili

1998

The theme of this installation is derived from a childhood’s joke…"In a small, Australian town a container disappeared. After a long time of searching, everybody forgets about the mysterious story. Six months later, in the centre of Cologne, Germany some passers-by stumble upon an on the outside completely burned, dirty and damaged container that arises from the ground in a sort of crater. Scientists claim that, this is the container that vanished from the face of the earth in Australia some months ago. Everything in the container is upside down. This might indicate that the Australian air remained conserved in it. It is believed that once its door is opened and European air permeates the container, everything inside it will fall down."

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