Thea Djordjadze & George Maciunas
For her first residency in the United States, Georgian, Berlin-based artist Thea Djordjadze creates an installation of new works on site. Djordjadze translates commonplace household and construction materials into poetic objects, gathering found materials from local architectural salvage yards. The installation involves a meticulous process revealing the artist's interest in the act of creation and the resulting sculptural forms, which incorporates plaster and acrylic paint with carpet, mirror, clay brick, and metal screens. In this way, Djordjadze's art practice resembles the procedure of the "scientific method" that has become standard since the 17th century, consisting of systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. The title of her new exhibition at CAM, His Vanity Requires No Response, is taken from the third chapter of T.S. Eliot's (English, 1888-1965) epic poem The Waste Land: THE FIRE SERMON (1922), to evoke Djordjadze's deft gesture of creating work and meaning in a fast, if even sketch-like, process.
Thea Djordjadze is curated by Mel Trad. |