Autumn: Andro Eradze

“I'm sharing with you the texts I've been reading lately, which have helped me in many ways. By help, I don't mean refining technique or better understanding photography theory - but rather strengthening imagination. I think this is especially important for people whose work is related to imagery. The first text is fiction, authored by American poet and writer Delmore Schwartz. The author is the main character of the story, watching the story of his own parents in a movie theater. The second selected author, Roger Caillois, connects insect mimicry, magic, and human relationship with space; he unfolds the anthropomorphic gaze and the diversity of perception in a broad cross-section of disciplines. The third is a poem by John Keats. Similar to the first, Keats relies on a dream-like experience. This poem reveals a new layer and new sense of wisdom, beauty, and thought with each reading. I believe that some texts help us better see what's in front of us - in the form of our immediate environment. When working on imagery, the lines of imagination also originate from this environment.”

Andro Eradze (°1993, GE) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His works meditate on the qualitative nature of images, still as well as moving. He studied at the Shota Rustaveli Film Academy, as well as CCA-T (Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi) MFA program. Working primarily in Georgia, Eradze experiments with introducing narratives to the outskirts of human habitation, in the literal and figurative sense. The feeling of an uncanny, non-anthropocentric presence in his works invites the viewer to the liminal space among the subjective and the visceral, between cognition, perception and the alien otherness of non-human experience. Animals, objects, plants, and digital artifacts permeate a sense of presence in a landscape that exists simultaneously parallel and entangled human experience. Eradze’s practice investigates the potentiality of animism as method. Photography, installations, experimental cinema practices and video blend into a project contemplating the fading present, in which the Anthropocene is faltering, and everything operates independently of it. Building upon the legacy of alternative approaches to reality—surrealism and magical realism—his images blur the distinction between the imaginary and the real.

He took part in several international solo, group exhibitions and screenings including: The 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT); The New Museum Screen Series, New Museum, New York (USA); WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (BE); The Parliament of Mamonts Biennale Gherdeina 9, Val Gardena (IT); Memory is an Editing Station, 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (BR); Long-distance Friendships, 14th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (LT); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE); Between Dog and Wolf, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, (FR); We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, (USA); Long Live the Night, SpazioA, Pistoia (IT); Everything Happened so Much, Film Festival Oberhausen (DE); Buildings Are Not Enough, Tbilisi Architectural Biennial, Tbilisi, (GE).

Delmore schwartz In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Here)