SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
VAJIKO CHACHKHIANI
Based between Berlin and Tbilisi, Georgian artist Vajiko Chachkhiani works across film, sculpture, and installation. Having initially studied mathematics and informatics, Chachkhiani went on to study fine arts in Berlin and Amsterdam. His practice is focused on an exploration of how the human psyche operates, or in his words, “the way history defines psychic tendencies, and the intersection of inner and outer narratives.” The results are often uncanny and otherworldly. At the Venice Biennale in 2017, he presented a Georgian log cabin filled with furniture that grew moss as rain got inside the work, suggesting an inversion between interior and exterior environments and states of being. This solo exhibition will feature new videos and sculptural installations.
VENUE
VENUE
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
- A8
- Nezu
SCAI The Bathhouse was founded in 1993 in a 200-year-old former public bathhouse building in the old Tokyo district of Yanaka, a short walk from Ueno, an area dense with museums and art schools. Representing artists from across a wide range of generations and practices, the gallery seeks to function as a meeting place for various currents of contemporary art from Japan and abroad. To pursue this mission further, the gallery recently opened Komagome Soko, an experimental project space for emerging talents; SCAI Park, which transforms part of a storage facility into an exhibition site; and SCAI Piramide, an outpost in Roppongi for cultivating thoughtful exchanges and further advancing the contemporary art scene in Tokyo.
