Adler Guerrier & Levani at Tbilisi Kunsthalle
Kunsthalle Tbilisi
Adler Guerrier
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Nested in a Place of Becoming
September 22 – October 26, 2022
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On Becoming: An Evocation for Adler Guerrier and Levani By Re’al Christian (PDF)
Kunsthalle Tbilisi is pleased to present a two-person exhibition, Nested in a Place of Becoming, by Adler Guerrier and Levani at Fabrika Tbilisi. With inquiries into history, race, identity and notions of place, the exhibition is centered around an expanded ecological view of human habitations as sites that engender openness, possibilities, learning, and liberation. The show is informed by gardens, as physical and metaphysical forms, engaged "always [as] a place of becoming" (Solnit, Orwell's Roses), where tending to one amounts to seeding hope and investing in the future.
Guerrier's installation of mixed media drawings and photography suggests formulation of thoughts related to a proximity of plants and open to the natural, from which expressions of everyday beauty have intimated a deepened perspective of place, one's self, shared affinities with others, and outlook on the possible.
Titled “what color is the BlackSea?” (2021-ongoing), Levani’s installation foregrounds Ecology's potential for cognitive restructuring. An ecosystem of its own, the installation is inhabited by living plants and their casts in silicone and resin, growing horticulture lights, latex fabric imprinted with Georgian language, neon, and sound. Inquiring into the material, cosmological, and psychological dimensions of the human and nonhuman beyond identity categories, the installation collapses the binary dichotomies of living vs. non-living, natural vs. synthetic, material vs. spiritual. It offers an iconography of pluriversal belonging, empathy, solidarity, and care.
Exhibition is organized with Marisa Newman Projects, NY and is accompanied by a catalog with essay by Re’al Christian.
Exhibition at KunsthalleTbilisi.com
Gallery Hours: Wed -Sun: 1 - 8 PM.
Exhibition address: Fabrika Tbilisi, Ninoshvili 8, Tbilisi, Georgia 0102
Adler Guerrier
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili
Nested in a Place of Becoming
Installation view
Photography Guram Kapanadze
Adler Guerrier
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili
Nested in a Place of Becoming
Installation view
Photography Guram Kapanadze
Adler Guerrier
Installation view
Photography Guram Kapanadze
Adler Guerrier
Untitled (At the still point of mottled formations and a scruple of compassion) i
2022
Archival pigment print
38.1 x 25.4 cm
Adler Guerrier
Untitled (Ode to an indispensable, neat, and useful place/At the still point of the turning world) ii
2020
Archival pigment print
38.1 x 25.4 cm
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Birth
2022
Stainless steel, Soviet Modernist table, horticulture lights, and four sculptures:
შ. (შეჯვარება) Mating, 2022 Rock from Batumi botanical garden, Palm-tree bud casted in silicone and black resin, stainless steel laboratory hardware
დ. (დაბადება) Birth, 2022 Florida Coconut, Etretat cowrie shell, Mtsvane Kontskhi Trachycarpus Fortunei, Black Sea water and shells in laboratory beaker
ც. (ცირკულაცია) Circulation, 2022 Kumquat in glass aquarium, Grigoleti shells
ე. (ეპისტემოლოგია) Epistemology, 2022 Iridescent latex, human body wax casts, Black Sea sand, shells and burnt wood in glass petri-dish, glass, Georgian children’s cut-out alphabet on iridescent vinyl latex.
Overall 203 x 125 x 250 cm.
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Birth (detail)
2022
Stainless steel, Soviet Modernist table, horticulture lights, and four sculptures:
შ. (შეჯვარება) Mating, 2022 Rock from Batumi botanical garden, Palm-tree bud casted in silicone and black resin, stainless steel laboratory hardware
დ. (დაბადება) Birth, 2022 Florida Coconut, Etretat cowrie shell, Mtsvane Kontskhi Trachycarpus Fortunei, Black Sea water and shells in laboratory beaker
ც. (ცირკულაცია) Circulation, 2022 Kumquat in glass aquarium, Grigoleti shells
ე. (ეპისტემოლოგია) Epistemology, 2022 Iridescent latex, human body wax casts, Black Sea sand, shells and burnt wood in glass petri-dish, glass, Georgian children’s cut-out alphabet on iridescent vinyl latex.
Overall 203 x 125 x 250 cm.
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Birth (detail)
2022
Stainless steel, Soviet Modernist table, horticulture lights, and four sculptures:
შ. (შეჯვარება) Mating, 2022 Rock from Batumi botanical garden, Palm-tree bud casted in silicone and black resin, stainless steel laboratory hardware
დ. (დაბადება) Birth, 2022 Florida Coconut, Etretat cowrie shell, Mtsvane Kontskhi Trachycarpus Fortunei, Black Sea water and shells in laboratory beaker
ც. (ცირკულაცია) Circulation, 2022 Kumquat in glass aquarium, Grigoleti shells
ე. (ეპისტემოლოგია) Epistemology, 2022 Iridescent latex, human body wax casts, Black Sea sand, shells and burnt wood in glass petri-dish, glass, Georgian children’s cut-out alphabet on iridescent vinyl latex.
Overall 203 x 125 x 250 cm.
Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Birth (detail)
2022
Stainless steel, Soviet Modernist table, horticulture lights, and four sculptures:
შ. (შეჯვარება) Mating, 2022 Rock from Batumi botanical garden, Palm-tree bud casted in silicone and black resin, stainless steel laboratory hardware
დ. (დაბადება) Birth, 2022 Florida Coconut, Etretat cowrie shell, Mtsvane Kontskhi Trachycarpus Fortunei, Black Sea water and shells in laboratory beaker
ც. (ცირკულაცია) Circulation, 2022 Kumquat in glass aquarium, Grigoleti shells
ე. (ეპისტემოლოგია) Epistemology, 2022 Iridescent latex, human body wax casts, Black Sea sand, shells and burnt wood in glass petri-dish, glass, Georgian children’s cut-out alphabet on iridescent vinyl latex.
Overall 203 x 125 x 250 cm.