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Andro Eradze - Anger for Danger, 2020 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Andro Eradze, Anger for Danger, 2020. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Metal Frame. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist and SpazioA, Pistoia. Photo by Tiberio SorvilloAndro Erazde, Portrait © 

Georgian artist Andro Eradze adopts photography, installations, experimental film practices and video to create surreal and enigmatic images that investigate the coexistence of various species in borderline spaces, both inside and outside the urban landscape. Inspired by the latest philosophical theories on interspecies relations, his works blur the distinction between the imaginary and the real. Raised in the Dust (2022), presented at the Venice Biennale, is a short video set in a forest where stuffed animals illuminated by fireworks appear from the darkness. The animals’ glassy gaze becomes a silent and ironic commentary on the relationship between humanity and non-human species, in which the former is both disturbing and toxic with regard to the inhabitants of the forest.

In The Parliament of Marmots, Eradze presents a series of photographs of stuffed wild animals, documented in their museum ‘setting’, which began in 2020. There is something uncanny in how humans have tried to give these dead animals vitality, a sensation heightened by the fact that the artist turns the photographs green, as if spying on them at night through infrared sights. Night is a key element in the artist’s research: ‘between the wolf and the dog’ is a common saying in Georgia and other socialist countries, which indicates twilight, that moment when the shepherd can no longer tell a wolf from a dog, danger from salvation. (M.P.)

ANDRO ERADZE

Andro Eradze (1993, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Between surrealism and magic realism, his works depict a landscape with a non-anthropocentric presence. He studied at the Shota Rustaveli Film Academy, and at CCA-T - Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi MFA program. He took part in several international solo, group exhibitions and screenings including: 59th Venice Biennale; The New Museum, New York; WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo; 14th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; SpazioA, Pistoia; Film Festival Oberhausen; LC-Queisser, Tbilisi; and Tbilisi Architectural Biennial, Tbilisi.

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Andro Eradze - Anger for Danger, 2020 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Andro Eradze, Anger for Danger, 2020. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Metal Frame. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist and SpazioA, Pistoia. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Georgian artist Andro Eradze adopts photography, installations, experimental film practices and video to create surreal and enigmatic images that investigate the coexistence of various species in borderline spaces, both inside and outside the urban landscape. Inspired by the latest philosophical theories on interspecies relations, his works blur the distinction between the imaginary and the real. Raised in the Dust (2022), presented at the Venice Biennale, is a short video set in a forest where stuffed animals illuminated by fireworks appear from the darkness. The animals’ glassy gaze becomes a silent and ironic commentary on the relationship between humanity and non-human species, in which the former is both disturbing and toxic with regard to the inhabitants of the forest.

In The Parliament of Marmots, Eradze presents a series of photographs of stuffed wild animals, documented in their museum ‘setting’, which began in 2020. There is something uncanny in how humans have tried to give these dead animals vitality, a sensation heightened by the fact that the artist turns the photographs green, as if spying on them at night through infrared sights. Night is a key element in the artist’s research: ‘between the wolf and the dog’ is a common saying in Georgia and other socialist countries, which indicates twilight, that moment when the shepherd can no longer tell a wolf from a dog, danger from salvation. (M.P.)

ANDRO ERADZE

Andro Eradze (1993, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Between surrealism and magic realism, his works depict a landscape with a non-anthropocentric presence. He studied at the Shota Rustaveli Film Academy, and at CCA-T - Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi MFA program. He took part in several international solo, group exhibitions and screenings including: 59th Venice Biennale; The New Museum, New York; WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo; 14th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; SpazioA, Pistoia; Film Festival Oberhausen; LC-Queisser, Tbilisi; and Tbilisi Architectural Biennial, Tbilisi.