[ISEA94] Artist Statement: Gia Rigvava –– ‘You Can Trust Me’ and ‘You Are Powerless’

Artist Statement

Venue: Customs Office and Warehouse Building, Helsinki

Gia Rigvava’s works “You can trust me” and “You are powerless” start from [the] notion [that information technology was considered a medium only for propaganda, oppression, and conceit]. “You can trust me” uses the genre of the “talking head”, sublimating the characters of massmedia: Jesus, Terminator, Gorbachev.

  • Gia Rigvava was born in 1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Graduated from Moscow International Relations Institute in 1978 and Surikov Art Institute in Moscow in 1986. Started creative activities in 1987. Active participant in artistical processes in Moscow in Post-soviet time – from 1992. One of the most visible figures in the Russian art in the 90’s. youtube.com/watch?v=ucNlI2-eUDc