a time-based audio-visual exhibition
A Georgian-Danish audio-visual exhibition in dialogue with Christian Stadsgaard & Loke Rahbek, built around Great Many Arrows by Damien Dubrovnik.
Six Great Arrows is a time-based audio-visual exhibition built around six consecutive rooms. The visitor moves through the sequence alone.
Each room brings together an artwork, a chair and a pair of headphones. Great Many Arrows by Damien Dubrovnik provides the temporal structure of the experience.
The project brings Georgian and Danish artistic practices together on equal terms. It is not a comparison, but a shared process of creating something new.
In Georgia, the conditions for independent cultural expression and open public dialogue are becoming increasingly fragile. The space in which different voices can meet, be heard and coexist cannot be taken for granted.
Six Great Arrows is not a direct political statement or an illustration of current events. It creates an independent cultural encounter: a space for attention, listening and different artistic voices to exist alongside one another without being reduced to a single position or prescribed message.
A space for listening, attention and coexistence.
The project asks what conditions allow an artwork and a viewer to meet, not only as an image to be interpreted, but as an event shaped by time, space, attention, sound, light and physical presence.
The exhibition does not prescribe what a visitor should feel or conclude. It constructs a framework in which a response may emerge.
“Under what conditions does an artwork cease to be merely an object, and become an Event?”
— A symbol, not a code.
The arrow holds opposing conditions together: freedom and pain, intention and force, desire and direction. It is released into movement, yet its trajectory has already been shaped by another hand.
In flight, it carries both the possibility of freedom and the fact of its origin. At impact, movement becomes consequence. An arrow embedded in a surface makes visible what the act of release leaves behind: a mark, a wound, a trace.
Across the exhibition, the arrow is not a key to decoding six rooms. It is an open symbolic thread connecting agency and vulnerability, action and responsibility, movement and what remains.
Heavy curtains create a sequence of thresholds, separating the six encounters from one another. The visitor moves through the pavilion room by room, with each work held in its own visual and acoustic conditions.
A manifesto poem is installed as part of the room, extending across long hanging sheets. The text becomes a spatial presence rather than a caption. The poem and the first track of Great Many Arrows come together in a newly created audio work.
— Different perspectives. New work.
The project brings together Georgian and Danish artists through dialogue, shared practice and the creation of new work.
This is not a comparison between cultures or an exchange in one direction. It is a horizontal collaboration in which distinct artistic perspectives meet, challenge one another and open up possibilities that could not have emerged alone.
Developed in dialogue with Christian Stadsgaard & Loke Rahbek, the project brings together contemporary art, experimental sound and collaborative artistic practices.
— A cultural partnership.
Factory Tbilisi's support would make this project possible as a public cultural initiative, bringing together new artistic work, experimental sound and Georgian-Danish collaboration in a space where audiences can encounter contemporary art differently.
At a moment when independent cultural spaces and open exchange matter, hosting Six Great Arrows would be a meaningful contribution to the cultural life of the city. We are seeking Factory Tbilisi's support as host venue and cultural partner.