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2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

'Dogs bark, but the caravans move on'

2017

'Dogs bark, but the caravans move on' is an old proverb that implies a vain attempt to stop a certain event.The exhibition provokes pulsation of the past of the location of the exhibition - the historic Artsruni caravanserai. It is this pulsation that was accelerated and is accelerated by the oriental scent of caravan tracks or main railway lines, the Western fashion, travellers, the businesses of gas and oil magnates, globalisation, wars, and love...

Author/curator - Teona Japaridze

Video art/ object - Tatia Skhirtladze

Audio - Dima Dadiani

Installation - Giorgi Maghradze

The exhibition includes artefacts from the collection of Georgian National Museum.