Editor’s Pick
“The films begin with an all-encompassing cacophony of binaural tones entangled with familiar murmurs of wind, fire crackling, and sounds of a far-off carnival. These eldritch utterances dance beautifully in tandem with the stark red, green, and blue flickers of light. William De Kooning once said in an interview from 1960 with David Sylvester, “Content is the glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It’s very tiny—very tiny, content.” The beauty of Eradze’s landscapes is undeniable, but they’re nevertheless a frantic, unreliable narrator at best. A display of a zoo of taxidermy huddled in a dark forest, followed by floating kitchen utensil buffoonery, one’s senses are heightened beyond belief as a comical arc meets an experimental conjuring, an unlikely but exceedingly entertaining marriage.
Delightfully depleted, it might be time to retreat up north to idyllic Marin. Nestled in the heart of downtown Point Reyes, the ever-lovely Blunk Space is an artful extension of the artist’s handmade home, currently exhibiting work by Daichiro Shinjo and Jonathan Cross.”
About the Exhibition
Andro Eradze (b. 1993, Tbilisi, Georgia; lives and works in Tbilisi) creates mesmerizing films, photographs, and installations that draw from surrealism and magic realism to dissolve distinctions between the real and imagined, alive and inanimate, domestic and wild. In his work, animals, plants, and other nonhuman subjects are often in tension with a looming human presence, as they navigate the vestiges of attempts to tame or conform them. In focusing his lens on the space between the organic and the synthetic, Eradze reveals an interconnectedness between all things.