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The residency program "Subtropical Cultures" results of partnership between Tbilisi Photo Festival and MagiC Carpets, Creative Europe platform.


Throughout the residence, the artists worked in a variety of techniques, including video, photography, video game, computer-generated images and text. They mused around topics such as historical memory and amnesia, personal experience and trauma, issues of gender, reflection on the everyday life and universal generalizations.


The program aimed to support the visual artists and to use art as a tool for trustful exchanges between artists representing the conflict divided sides.

The week of presentations resulting from the art residency program "Subtropical Cultures" will be held from April 1 - 16, 2021. 

Artists from Tbilisi and Sukhumi took part in the residency:

Anna Dziapshipa
Ana Gzirishvili
Zura Jishkariani
Arkhip Labakhua
Sophio Medoidze
Mariam Natroshvili & Detu Jincharadze
Anton Ochirov

The project had an invited guest artist from Serbia, Slobodan Stosic.

Programme

April 1st

"Subtropical Cultures"

Exhibition opening/Meeting with the artists at Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum

18:30


"Lost in Meanings" Meeting with the artists

Participating Artists:

Anna Dziapshipa
Ana Gzirishvili
Mariam Natroshvili

Moderator: Elene Kapanadze

April 3rd

"Salty Taste of The Black Sea"

15:30


Screening of the photo projects produced in Abkhazia by international artists in different years. The slideshow has been produced for Tbilisi Photo Festival 2018.

Works by Eric Baudelaire, Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos, Anna Dziapshipa, Thomas Dworzak/Magnum Photos, Maria Gruzdeva, Yuri Kozyrev/Noor, Justyna Mielnikiewicz/MAPS, Gueorgui Pinkhassov/ Magnum Photos.

As well as selection of photographs from family albums, the collection of image of anonymous Polish tourists’ photo archives and short documentaries from the 1970s.

16:00

Hybrid event Meeting with photographers Thomas Dworzak/Magnum Photos and Justyna Mielnikiewicz/MAPS.

Moderator - Elene Kapanadze.

April 7th

"It’s clear, neither today, nor this week..."

18:00

Talk between historian David Jishkariani, philosopher George Maisuradze and political scientist Paata Zakareishvili.







Cover image © Arkhip Labakhua