Little commentary
This original portfolio consists of eight Polaroid reproductions and five stereographs, each with viewing glasses. This first major collaboration between artists Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov is limited to 30 copies.
Eliso Tsintsabadze & Pavel Filkov
Little Commentary
Published Gallery&co 119, 2018
Limited edition of 30
All signed
Portfolio box:
5 Stereographs with glasses
8 transferred polaroids
"Since ancient times, people have been gazing at the stars from the surface that connects us all. At the same time, we have been searching for a way to describe and give an explanation for what we see. We want to conquer, we want to be there, we want to be everywhere. One day, maybe, it will happen - and we will disappear again in this ancient void.
"Little commentary" is an exploration of a human's relationship to landscape through photography as well as an attempt to study the medium of photography itself and its desire to document."
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Little Commentary is the first major collaboration between artists Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov. They carried out this project in the United States, while Eliso was studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Noting the gap between the idea of a fantasized Wild West and the reality of contemporary landscapes, the project also questions the role that photography plays in the construction and then deconstruction of myths. At the origin of this project, there was the desire to explore the Great American West, in this Wild West which was for the two artists the source of so many fantasies dating back to the time when, as children, they discovered images of these immense wild expanses taken from the great encyclopedias reported by American photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With their bags and cameras on their backs, Eliso and Pavel set off on a journey, thirsting for wide open spaces and freedom, with the idea of finally encountering this "monumental" nature.