Andro Eradze
∗1993, Tbilisi, Georgia
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. InThe 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.
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