Eliso Tsintsabadze & Pavel Filkov
Little Commentary (Signed)
Published by Gallery&co 119, 2018
Limited Edition of 30 copies.
Portfolio:
5 Stereographs with glasses
8 polaroids
Little Commentary is the first major collaboration between artists Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov. They carried out this project in the United States, while Eliso was studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Noting the gap between the idea of a fantasized Wild West and the reality of contemporary landscapes, the project also questions the role that photography plays in the construction and then deconstruction of myths. At the origin of this project, there was the desire to go and discover the Great American West, in this Wild West which was for the two artists the source of so many fantasies dating from this time when, as children, they discovered taken from the great encyclopedias the images of these immense wild expanses reported by American photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With their bags and cameras on their backs, Eliso and Pavel set off on a journey, thirsty for wide open spaces and freedom, with the idea of finally encountering this “monumental” nature.