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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

Two Solo Shows - Gvantsa Jishkariani and Tamo Jugeli

2019

Project ArtBeat presents exhibitions of two young arists Gvantsa Jishkariani and Tamo Jugeli. The expositions will be presented in two separated spaces of the gallery.

Gvantsa Jishkariani

Who will record history?

“Trees swimming in the sea

Flagman on top of the tree

Three men tear out a tree

Noah?

The tree that had roads built and waters part?“


Tamo Jugeli

“You know what?! I don't have a good feeling about cakes around here” (Carolin Eidner)

‘People don’t have bread’ - they complained.
‘Let them eat cake then’ - answered Marie Antoinette

“Women have been greeted with cakes and buns when entering the patriarchal world. The cakes have also been given appropriate romantic/pathetic names: ‘goddess’, ‘mother’, ‘courtesan’, ‘fire-keeper’ ... - exactly bakery assortment type - and sugar, as is widely known, is white death. So today the venom filled nature of Patriarchate has become obvious and the utterly cynical attitude of Marie Antoinette towards social affairs has gained deep meaning: patriarchal society only deserves cynicism because of the criminal nature of its symbolic values. Societal impotence and its historical/criminal self consumerism can only be covered with cynicism. And Marie Antoinette’s words are a sarcastic gesture of the feminist view entering history.

Today only country bumpkins can believe in cakes.

Cake free woman’s conscious has made space for free-flowing games - beyond rational-logical conscious, symbolic hierarchies and their subordinate structures. Islands of emotional intensities have become intercrossing spaces. Here lies the ecstatic ex-static opening of breathtaking spaces, where no one is invited to compete and games are only for demonstrating individual nature.

Getting full with cakes has been replaced with disembodied energetic dance and woman is the only one bringing this to the world today with her intuition which has been oppressed for centuries.” - Gia Edzgveradze