Gabriela Vanga
Elzbieta Jablonska
Malgorzata Markiewicz
Michal Murin
Kiril Prashkov
Fabio Andrea Sajiz
Emanuela Marassi
Lorenzo Missoni
Ebba Matz
Mans Wrange
Katrin Essenson
Gül Ilgaz
Aleksandar Kujučev
Rudolf Sikora
Balint Szombathy
Igor Eškinja
Slaven Tolj
Vana Urošević
Alevtina Kakhidze
Igor Scerbina
Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu
Lela B.Njatin

Alevtina Kakhidze

biography




Come, my beloved and dine with me, 2005

Curator: Jerzy Onuch
Center for Contemporary Art SCCA Fundation, Kiev, Ukraine

Come, my beloved, and dine with me
"Come, my beloved, and dine with me" - is a reconstruction of ancient Ukrainian fortune telling done on the day before Christmas. Here "truth" borders on "fallacy", form on content, feminine on masculine, public on private. Only feelings are true, while form is fallacy. The form of folk rituals belongs to the past and, in fact, cannot be reconstructed. The more contacts there are between the past and the present, the less "rituality" there is in the form of ritual.
The artist's project statement

Text on the wall:
It is said that when at midnight you hold a mirror in front of yourself and say the mystical words: "Come, my beloved, and dine with me", the destined will appear in the mirror.