Press release, 24 April 2017 | instagram
 
 
    
Pavilion of Georgia
at the 57th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia

 

Vajiko Chachkhiani will represent Georgia at this year’s 57th La Biennale di Venezia.
 
Situated inside the Arsenale, the Georgian Pavilion will consist of a small, abandoned, wooden house, found in the Georgian countryside. Reassembled in Venice, the hut contains all of the typical contents to be found in such a dwelling, including furniture, pictures and other everyday objects. Inside, the artist installed a self-contained irrigation system simulating permanent rain, reversing the inside-outside relation. Yellow sodium lighting illuminates the interior and permits visitors to witness the slow entropic process of destruction as moss cultures engulf floors, walls, furniture and other objects over the duration of the six-month long exhibition. The installation will create its own narrative following a natural dramaturgy that allows for subtle change. In contrast to the interior, the exterior of the house will remain the same.  

The works of Vajiko Chachkhiani are shaped by a poetic humanism that exists between personal experience and political reality as well as between psychological explorations and material immediacy. Directly or indirectly the point of departure for many of his works is an exchange of objects or actions between people, sometimes appearing as a performance. The artist condenses his subjects by using reduced forms in a subtle interplay between revealing and concealing. The ordinary materials and the traditional craftsmanship of his works come out of a basic, everyday reality. Parallel to his sculptures and installations Chachkhiani has developed a cinematic oeuvre ranging from the documentation of single occurrences to more narrative films that hover between dreams and reality.
 
 
Born in Tbilisi in 1985, Vajiko Chachkhiani graduated form Berlin’s University of Arts and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is a recipient of the Rubens Promotional Award of the Contemporary Art Museum Siegen in Germany. Last month, Chachkhiani’s works were exhibited in the group show Across the Caucasus at the Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum. The artist is shortlisted for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize given by PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine. Vajiko Chachkhiani will take part in this year's 15th Istanbul Biennial and in the Steyrischen Herbst 2017, in Austria.
 
The Pavilion of Georgia is curated by Julian Heynen.
Commissioned by Ana Riaboshenko, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia. Organised by OBSCURA. Supported by TBC Bank.
 

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Image: © the artist / Photo: Nestan Abdushelishvili / Courtesy the artist and Daniel Marzona, Berlin.
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