MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness

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.

MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness brings together three works that form a trilogy for the first time: All Hands Bury the Dead (2020), Raised in the Dust (2022), and Eradze’s newest film, Flowering and Fading (2024). All three works are connected by the presence of unseen forces, which shift and intensify throughout the films as the wind takes on a life of its own, fireworks emit strobing light, and objects rise weightlessly to cast a choreography of shadows. Situating viewers within an otherworldly landscape of entangled perceptions, Eradze blurs the boundaries not only between the real and imagined, but also between the perspectives of those at all angles to the lens.