Sandro Sulaberidze (b.1991) studied photography at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. His interest is focused on experimental photography, design, and invention. For his experimental photography artist uses different lenses, cameras, including his own creations: ‘Point of View of a Fly I’ and ‘Point of View of a Fly II’. These two projects combine the interests of the artist – at the same time, these are cameras, designed by the artist including technical solutions.
In his artworks, Sulaberidze depicts reaction to the massive production of contemporary digital photography. In an endless amount of reproduced digital photos artist sees difficulties to show his own artistic focus with the same form, medium, material. Processes in the environment are always diverse. Monotony, unchangeableness is more like inner state or feeling. The new approach, found by the artist, makes possible to see reality and the photo-medium in a new perspective. In experimental photos, ordinary moments, that are lost in the flow of digital information, get a new meaning, attention.
Traditional photo-camera is based on human eye model. But objective reality is much brighter, than the camera lens. Perhaps human eye sees fragments of the world around itself, it is possible that it has a limited range of perception. For example, insects eye model has different possibilities and therefore other limits. Insect vision system is compounded of many small eyes, which perceives different particles of the whole image. It is sphere-shaped compound eye construction, which takes information through many lenses. Reality forms in compound eye system as a mosaic picture. Insect looks at the world with the very large view angle and because of that, it has the ability to detect very fast moment.
The first device designed by Sulaberidze, which presents a vision of the different being, the point of view of a fly, is his diploma work at Art Academy (2014). The small camera works like an insect eye. light goes through many small lenses in the device and finally building up image mosaic. Photos are focused on usual, daily life moments. This camera creates small scaled pictures that allow us to visualize the principle of vision of other creature.
The second camera - ‘Point of View of a Fly II’ created in an art residency in Zurich (Message Salon Embassy, 2017), presents the larger scale of possibilities of an insect eye. The device is made of plywood, metal plates, plastic tubes. With this model, we can create panoramic half-circle images. Photos depict leftovers from eating. The project lets us see everyday life through another creatures eyes, who are part of the moment lake humans.
Since 2015 Sulaberidze is a member of a contemporary art platform “Obscura”. Since 2013 he takes part in different exhibitions and art projects, among them: solo show “Point of View of a Fly”, Bauhaus hall, 2018; Stream wise, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, 2018; Message Salon Embassy Zurich Nord, 2017; From Cognac to Africa, Nectar Gallery, Tbilisi, 2016; Synthesis 1, Telavi, Nadikvari Park, 2016; Synthesis 2, Fabrica, Tbilisi, 2016; New Constructive Energies, Expo_Georgia, Tbilisi, 2016; XXI Century Georgian Artists, Popiashvili-Gvaberidze Window Project, 2015; Gallery Container, 2013.
