We are thrilled to present two individual video installations by artists: Tekla Aslanishvili and Andro Eradze

Tekla Aslanishvili

Tekla Aslanishvili (b. 1988) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist based between Berlin and Tbilisi. In her

practice, she observes the shifting relations between governments, people, and their territories through

the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects. Tekla completed her studies at the Tbilisi State Academy

of Arts in 2009 and holds a Master of Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts in Experimental Film and

New Media department. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally at Berlinische Galerie;

Videoart at Midnight, Berlin; SculptureCenter, New York; Taipei Biennial 2023; Hong-gah Museum Taipei;

MCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Wiels, Brussels; Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam;

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; New Visions - The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media,

Oslo; Transmediale 2023; Loop Festival / Antoni Tàpies museum Barcelona; NTU Centre for Contemporary

Art Singapore; Neue Berliner Kunstverein; 14th Baltic Triennial; Tbilisi Architecture Biennial; Videonale 18;

Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Kunsthalle Münster; EMAF - European Media Art Festival. She is a 2019

Digital Earth fellow, a nominee for the Ars-Viva Art Prize 2021, and a recipient of the Han Nefkens Founda-

tion – Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award 2020. Currently, Tekla is a postgraduate fellow

at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts.

A State in a State is an experimental documentary film that follows the construction, disruption, and frag-

mentation of railroads in the South Caucasus and Caspian regions. It examines railways as the technical

materialisation of fragile political borders that have re-emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Revolving around scenes of waiting and delay that constitute cargo mobility, the film reads the optimistic

narratives about the New Silk Road against the grain. It observes how the iron foundation of connectivity

can be used as a weapon of exclusion and geopolitical sabotage. Along the same lines, other forms of

sabotage are deployed by workers to disrupt the political violence. Looking at historic and current practic-

es of resistance A State in a State explores the potential of railroads for building a different, infrastructural

consciousness and the lasting, transnational kinship among the people who live and work around them.

Andro Eradze

Andro Eradze (b.1993, GE) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His works meditate on the qualitative

nature of images, still as well as moving. Working primarily in Georgia, Eradze experiments with introduc-

ing narratives to the outskirts of human habitation, in the literal and figurative sense. The feeling of an

uncanny, non-anthropocentric presence in his works invites the viewer to the liminal space among the

subjective and the visceral, between cognition, perception and the alien otherness of non-human expe-

rience. Animals, objects, plants, and digital artifacts permeate a sense of presence in a landscape that

exists simultaneously parallel and entangled human experience. Eradze’s practice investigates the poten-

tiality of animism as method. Photography, installations, experimental cinema practices and video blend

into a project contemplating the fading present, in which the Anthropocene is faltering, and everything

operates independently of it. Building upon the legacy of alternative approaches to reality—surrealism and

magical realism—his images blur the distinction between the imaginary and the real. Selected international

solo and group exhibitions and screenings include: (On-going) - Gatherers, curated by Ruba Katrib,

MoMAPS1, NYC, The 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT); The

New Museum Screen Series, New Museum, New York (USA); WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels

(BE); Memory is an Editing Station, 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (BR); Long-distance Friend-

ships, 14th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (LT); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR); Between Dog

and Wolf, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, (FR); We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now,

Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, (USA); Long Live the Night, SpazioA, Pistoia (IT); Everything Happened

so Much, Film Festival Oberhausen (DE); Up-coming solo exhibitions include: 2025: Berkley Museum

(BAMFA), California, USA; Pallazo Strozzi, Florence, IT, 2025.

Flowering and Fading Gathering winds echo through the shadowiness of a still and quiet house. The

night envelops a dog and human asleep when a sudden gust knocks over a jar of honey. Its thick liquid

slowly drips onto the kitchen floor and the boundaries between the imaginative and the real begin to blur.

Drawing on surrealism and magical realism, Flowering and Fading resonates with Eradze’s practice in re-

vealing an alien sense of otherness through narratives introduced in the outskirts of human habitation. An

uncanny, non-human presence permeates in his works, drawing the viewer into an undefined space that

simultaneously intertwines and parallels human experience, leaving one with a sense of expansive antici-

pation.