Irina Abzhandadze

«Tests for the Feature Film – Uninvited Story»

Irina Abzhandadze

«Tests for the Feature Film – Uninvited Story»

(Mama Cash for Women and UNDP  Programme -  Gender and Politics in the South Caucasus)
Photovideo Installation. 2005. B/W photo. 120X80 cm. DV, 12min.
( Japanese authoress Nijio’s photovideo illustrations).

“I tasted bitterness of separation and weep tears”
 “How torturous is concealment of feelings in fear of rumours!”

  Ira kurmaeva

Ira  Kurmaeva

 “The woman is 1.64 cm” (Mama Cash for Women)

 PhotoVideo Installation. 2005 photo 30X40cm. video DV 08 min     

The line was beginning on the left big toe nail, slowly slid on the skin not observing irritating small hairs and first wrinkles; whirl around ugly black moles and scars getting on nerves; went up and down puffed-up veins; went up from neck to the face, stopped at the pimples, spinning for a while round the colorless lips, eyes, then to the forehead and lost in hair.

The photographic and  the video camera fixes personal sensory chronicle on the author’s body – routine cosmetic activities, marking by Flomaster moles, pimples, scars, newly appeared wrinkles and other unnoticeable defects at a glance. Cosmetic manipulation are ambiguous and ironical and presents gender sense perception according to private reality multiplied by own fantasies and statement and attempting to maintain epistemological perspectives free from isolation and borders of  uncorporal existence

          

  Sophia Cherkezishvili   2004-2005

Sophia Cherkezishvili 

Look at me! 

                   Videophoto Installation. 2004 video  DV 01min (USAID, IRIS)  photo 120X30 (OSGF)

 My eyes are

like one huge stone.

I don’t cry any more.

  Sophia Cherkezishvili

"you have no right to change my heart biting" / 2003