Georgian video art, creatives on showcase at Atelier Frankfurt
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Works by nearly two dozen video artists from Georgia are on display in Frankfurt to introduce creative currents and cultural background in the country’s post-Soviet era to viewers in Germany.
In Descriptions — Georgian Video Art Archive, which opened at Atelier Frankfurt on Saturday, the displayed works explore “themes of independence and dependence” with a look at the recent decades of video art in Georgia.
[Presented through] documentary, fictional footage and video [the medium] provides a broad and all-engrossing overview of the development of Georgian socio-cultural discourses”, organisers said in their summary for the show.
The exhibition of video art is hosted at Atelier Frankfurt within the venue’s festival ‘Young Georgian Characters @AF’:
The illustration of the post-Soviet era for Georgia comes from 22 artists from the country, with works curated by Giorgi Spanderashvili and Aleksi Soselia in collaboration with Galaqtion Eristavi & Tamar Muskhelishvili.
Organisers have also noted the importance of contemporary visual art forms in the display as a relevant means to represent artistic perception of today’s social and cultural reality.
The selected works illustrate diverse time periods and discourses and how they have been approached by Georgian artists, often accompanied by a metareflection and contextualization of the medium itself”, the summary for the event said.
Organized by the Georgian Video Art Archive (Video.Image), the display is hosted at Atelier Frankfurt within Young Georgian Characters @AF — the venue’s month-long programme of showcases of the Georgian art and culture.
With an emphasis on “emerging voice of Georgia’s youth culture and their complex relationship with history and tradition”, the programme is held in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair next month, where Georgia will be highlighted as the official Guest of Honour.
Descriptions will host viewers at the Frankfurt venue through October 14.