'Territory and Disruption' exhibition at State Silk Museum in Tbilisi
By Gvantsa Turmanidze
Thursday, April 18
Three artists- Gabriel Adams, Astrid Busch and Heather Lyon happened to come together at the State Silk Museum on a research-based artist residency.
Two years ago, the three artists worked at the Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi Historical Museum on the research work based on the ethnographic collection of the museum. The project was called 'In Situ' and was implemented within the framework of Artisterium 10.
'Territory and Disruption' uses objects or recycled fabric found in the State Silk Museum space. The project text explains that it 'aims to examine the themes of “territory and disruption” across a broad spectrum that encompasses the Silk Museum’s collection and related topics which confront both personal and global issues, such as: domain, land and its borders, disturbance, displacement, termination, extinction, and adaptation.'
Gabriel Adams, one of the research artists, enjoys the work as an 'excellent example of an interaction between museums and artists'.
The exhibition will offer an immersive experience to the visitors engaging them with the museum’s unexplored collection and a game which may remain a secret until the opening.
The exhibition opens on April 18, 2019 at 19:00 p.m.
State Silk Museum in Tbilisi
Giorgi Tsabadze St.6
Short viewing on the artists participating in the exhibition 'Territory and Disruption':
Gabriel Adams is a visual artist and curator. His work focuses on site-sensitive installation, and often ventures into multidisciplinary collaborations and curatorial projects. For the last decade, he has worked throughout Eurasia, with a primary focus in Korea, the Black Sea region, and Venice. Adams is based in the United States and New Zealand.
Astrid Busch’s work is site-specific. She uses materials taken from her daily work life and recombines them in a studio, re-photographing and digitally manipulating them to embody the architectural and atmospheric qualities of her research locations. Busch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. She lives and works in Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany.
Heather Lyon is an installation, video and performance artist living and working in Maine, United States. Through her poetic choices of unlikely materials (ranging from rebar to sequins to milk) and her task-based performances, she investigates interpersonal relationships and ways in which negotiate longing, loss, desire, and vulnerability.
