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Andria Dolidze

Info: My text is a tentative attempt to trace the possibility of an encounter with Andria Dolidze’s work – to create a conversation between his images and my words. The closer I get to his painting, the more I turn towards other voices: he sends me excerpts from Italo Calvino, and I find myself reading Fernando Pessoa, Bruno Latour, and Keller Easterling – a wandering through pages, a brief pause, and then moving on. A form of writing as mapping – an attempt to approach Andria Dolidze’s exhibition at Lucas Hirsch on Birkenstraße 92 in Düsseldorf through language. In doing so, I repeatedly move beyond the surface of the page, beyond the exhibition space, and outward – toward the places where his images also find their origin. On his walks through cities, Dolidze collects objects, patterns, forms and ornaments. He photographs architectural details, fences, surfaces – a kind of urban archive. (…) – Text: Tabea Marschall