Main Partner
Main Partner
At the former Zoo of Torino – Parco Michelotti, Artissima, in collaboration with Città di Torino, presented Raised in the Dust, a video project by artist Andro Eradze (SpazioA gallery). The film, produced in 2022, is inspired by the conclusion of the classic Georgian poem The Snake Eater (1901) by Vazha-Pshavela. The poem’s protagonist has a supernatural talent for understanding the language of nature but must ultimately choose between his connection to nature and his social responsibilities, choosing the latter. Eradze’s film takes place in a forest where taxidermized animals appear one after another, disturbed by the noise of New Year’s Eve fireworks. Through a poignant critique of human actions that are in these cases toxic and fatal to wildlife, the film reframes the fireworks as a portal into the dark, mythological realm of the forest, a world populated by plants, animals and ghosts.
