“New Faith” – Press Release / 29_03_2024
Human Newsroom!
Don't try to understand to believe; believe to understand...
Such is the postulate of Blessed Augustine.
For a long time, people got used to the idea that faith is a human phenomenon rather than a divine one.
And like everything human, it undergoes formation - it grows. is develops. It dies.
Then it goes to a new cycle again - it grows. It develops. It dies.
But man, also likes rebellion.
All the more, a rebellion against faith - to overthrow the old and to give birth to a new one.
But what is transcendental about this "newness"?
Perhaps, the faith itself, which, perhaps, has nothing to do with faith, but combines in its head a complex mixture of man and God - a formless form that has become a part of the desired perfection.
In the current Babylonian discourse, people also contemplate Christian traces; More precisely, these are "traces of traces" and traces without traces. In searching for these clues, the world enters a new phase of questioning.
This century loves novelty...
news...
New digital...
New idolatry and new iconoclasm;
new technologies...
And in the meantime, a person has transformed from a new person to a newsroom.
The new faith in this newsroom is dubious, but full of news...
with news about people and humanity.
On post-humans and post-humanity.
On God and Godlessness.
About the lost paradise and the found hell, where faith is no longer lost, because it no longer exists...
David Andriadze
“New Faith” is a first exhibition uniting group of eight international emerging multimedia audio visual artists under ‘Arcane Space’ - which is international contemporary art space with main focus on minimal and conceptual multimedia audio visual emerging art, photography and its discussions uniting carefully selected group of Dutch, American and Georgian established Artists.
Title ‘New Faith’ is conceived by participant artist and co-curator Konstantin Mindadze who draws here parallel between new ‘alien’ form and imaginary crucifixion titled ‘Artificial Intelligence’ along with ‘black sphere’ made of meteorites, hidden messages in ‘black envelope’ and raw emotional image with formula of love.
American artist Sean Miller’s scroll text describing in details step by step exact damages caused by falling meteorite into homo sapiens built environment.
“Freedom” comes with its price in Zurab Arabidze’s self-titled piece represented visually almost like barbwire. In second installation first commandment is written in black acrylic relief letters on ceiling.
As continuation to the theme Manuchar Okrostvaridze displayed a diptych consisting of digital error text with red LED’s accompanied with smashed stainless steel hanging sculpture as metaphors of fragility and resilience.
In Tatia Darchiashvili’s triptych of drawings human lifeforms arise from string like lines flows, ranging from black and white to colorful fragments gently visible only if you approach them closely.
We also selected one large drawing by Lado Pochkhua’s serie ‘book of new Georgian Aristocracy’ – spooky detailed humanoid all dressed up but with absence of face. Maybe because to underline that personalities will be less important in age of AI.
Levan Vaznareli represents sixtych as well but in analog photography. Estranged locations with exact coordinates as titles in almost underwater tones has otherworldly touch to it.
And finally there is a specially edited atmospheric soundscapes by Italian ambient musician Paolo Tarsi, adding emotional mood to a complete show.
Konstantin Mindadze