Tbilisi subway network under artistic look in contemporary group display
The Maudi display brings together multimedia works exploring social flow and infrastructural emergence around the subway network of the city. Image via organisers.
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Contemporary art enthusiasts in Tbilisi are invited to an artistic look at social dynamics around Tbilisi subway network through a group exhibition at the city's Maudi space.
Works by a group of artists have been curated to form the exhibition - titled Tbilisi Flows - that picks the lines and stations of the city's comparatively small but crucial underground system.
Artistic research takes subway, as an infrastructural axis and observes the stations and it’s adjacent territories" - summary for the show
Through this lens the display involves research of the structure of the network as well as activities around its stations, where commercial and transportation hubs are formed.
Coming from artists Liza Zhvania, Lado Shonia, Dimitri Eristavi, Bubu Mosiashvili, Kniko Grdzelishvili and Davit Datunashvili, the works also include results of field research.
[Field work around these hubs involved] creating and archiving photo, audio and video materials. Through montage and exposition, collected materials are united in one merged field of perception" - summary for the show
These illustrations of "emerging social dynamics" branching out from the main subway network are organised in the exposition space through design by Aleksi Soselia.
It is hosted at Maudi, a multifunctional contemporary space unveiled earlier this year in Tbilisi. The venue has hosted displays by local artists as well as talks with visiting foreign art professionals.
The space is also home to performances by Haraki, an experimental theatre troupe founded this year with a focus on "development and research".
Tbilisi Flows will be open for viewing at the space, located at 140, Akaki Tsereteli Avenue, through January 10.