Every visualisation of the selected videos to launch PAV will be for free until October 1, 2023, thanks to the generous contribution of the featured artists.
Sabrina Bellenzier is an Italian performance artist and curator living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia. Within their practice, they investigate the relationship between the body and power structures, researching counter-narratives, glitches and cracks, with an approach that considers the intersections of memory and space grounded in decolonial and queer perspectives. Since 2021 they have relocated to Georgia, where they became a core member of the curatorial team of Untitled Tbilisi, an artist-run space uniting the voices of artists and activists from the Caucasus region to support women, queer and other marginalised groups’ rights through art projects in the region and internationally.
Giorgi Rodionov is an artist and a curator. Growing up in a post-Soviet country, his interest in social structures and identities grew greatly. Most of Giorgi’s works are based on his research findings, which are later transformed into curatorial work, installation, performance, participator art, book or other mediums. In early 2019, Giorgi established the art space Untitled Tbilisi, which aims to unite artists from the South Caucasus to use art as one of the main tools for promoting human rights and social justice in the region. He is also a member of the “90x collective” that unites four artists from Georgia in rethinking the changes Georgia went and still is going through after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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It has been 112 years since one single building in Tbilisi has stood as a silent witness to the passage of time, hosting countless generations, families, and lives. Facing all wars, national catastrophes, economical disasters and other troubles throughout all of its life, now it is the time for it to bid farewell to the 19 families who have called it home, as it prepares to be consigned to history forever.
After the temporary relocation the residents of the building will return to the same pin on the map but to a newly built apartment block.
The movie is made by Sabrina Bellenzier and Giorgi Rodionov, who explore the migration of memories from home to home at the same location, where the new inhabitants become the ghosts of the ruins the new home was built on.
This project was developed in collaboration with Untitled Tbilisi, an art organisation that has been an integral part of the house for years, further emphasising the connection between the building and the creative work surrounding it. The film appears to be a reflection on the passage of time, the continuity of memory, and the transformation of physical spaces.