Descriptions: Tblisi, Wato Tsereteli, Georgia

Descriptions: Tbilisi
In his film Descriptions: Tbilisi Wato Tsereteli takes us to the fascinating city of Tbilisi, the capital of his home country Georgia. Throughout history this small country in the Caucasus Mountains has been an area of both conflict and meetings between cultures.

Old trade routes between Europe and Asia crossed this country, which in medieval times was Christianity’s eastern kingdom. Tsereteli’s film feels like a poetic search for the identity of Tbilisi, where history, geography, religion and art are connected through strikingly beautiful pictures of this wild mountainous landscape which characterises the country. Tbilisi today is a city that is going through major and rapid changes with outcomes that are difficult to predict. Against this background Tsereteli’s film can be understood as a search for Tiblisi’s forgotten and ignored values.

The project is curated by Tromsø Kunstforening

Wato Tsereteli
Wato Tsereteli is an artist and curator from Georgia. After studying film in Georgia, he did his Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Tsereteli has initiated and led several organisations that work with contemporary arts in Georgia. One of these, Media Art Farm (maf), works with promoting multicultural dialogue in the Caucasus area and to establish a platform for contemporary arts in the region. Maf also runs the exhibition project appendix, an investigation of the southern Caucasus using artists both from and outside of the region.