Thea Djordjadze

Thea Djordjadze is one of the few names that put Georgia on the map of international art. Student and a great admirer of Rosemarie Trockel, Djordjadze has been exhibited on the most important art exhibitions of the world with the Documenta XIII being one of them. Renown for her acute sense of space she seems to be painting in three dimensions. Her works are often site specific- they are created and exhibited in the same space:

'When I am invited to a show the process is very routine like; I arrive in advance, observe the space, then think about it-not what I will be doing there, but the space in itself. The space is imprinted in me, then I return to the studio to work I try to not think about my working process. After a while I return to the space with unfinished artwork and then the rearranging begins.When I enter the space I try to unite it. I enter the space and think about it with the relation to time, everything that is in the space is a 3D work for me that I try to accomodate. What I do is a reorganisation of time in space. I am not a conceptualist, I do not have a conceptual logic that I follow. Emotion and intuition play crucial role in my creative process.'

(from the lecture at the Tbilisi State Academy 2012)

For the 55th Venice Biennial, Djordjadze worked on the Georgian Pavilion. 

'Soviet elements always resurface in my oeuvre. Now I realise these were all that I loved and was important to me. Initially I was planning to work on the Georgian alphabet (for the pavilion), but due to  the strict regulations I had a constrain of a 1.2m handrail, so I decided to play with the motives of baskets frequently seen on Georgian markets.' 

(from the interview to Artarea)

Thea Djordjadze, Venice Biennial 2013

The artist discussing her sculpture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZRx05Ra4v8