'Untitled Cell' 2015
Everything is interconnected. Electrons, emotions, facts.. even people are linked to each other.
The topic that I had chosen for the Salzburg Academy is about parallel sensations. To be honest, in Georgia there are lots of people who are still affected by the recent past of the Soviet Union. If I, in my country, feel locked up in a cell, in a box, because of the variety of problems (educational system, homophobia, lack of understanding of the traditions and etc.), I think Austrian people feel the same but has a different irritant. When the infrastructure of the city completely customized for foreign citizens and locals have to live with them, they sense themselves as a tourist. Therefore, in both cases, the sensations are crossing…
You want to be alone, separated from the masses, to become isolated.
The work ‘Untitled Cell’ represents public installation, which was staged in suburb of Salzburg. For avoiding the problems everyone can choose the ‘cell’. While going inside of this visually aggressive object, where everything is in black and you hear recorded voice of prisoners’ punishment in Georgian prison, you have the feeling as if you are protected by the camouflage and it helps to isolate from the outside world. But stay with ourselves, without guidance.. Emerge feeling of loneliness, abandonment, hopelessness.. You find it difficult to bear so much sense, leave the 'cell' and join in the daily routine.
MANIFEST:
Cell is not only a small room in which a prisoner is locked up or in which a monk or nun sleeps;
Cell is not only the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, which is typically microscopic and consists of cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane;
Cell is not only the local area covered by one of the short-range transmitters in a cellular telephone system;
Cell is a mixture of feelings about loneliness, abandonment and inability.
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