Andro Wekua Workshop Report

His home town, Sochumi, which was once a renowned seaside resort, has left Wekua with a rich wellspring of memories, stories and imaginings that are perceptible in all of his works. Yet he is not interested in memories for their own sake: his works explore our reactions to certain images and situations. Viewing his works, as with a collage, visitors can combine all the micro-narratives, narratives that mingle fact and fiction, and personal and collective imaginings, constantly giving rise to new stories. At the hub of the exhibition, Workshop Report there are two videos, Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas (2003) and By the Window (2008). The first begins and ends with the image of a house overlooking the sea, evoking fragments of the artist's childhood which the sea, evoking fragments of the artist's childhood which include his father's funeral. In the second a boy/mannequin sits with his feet on a table in a box/theatrical set of changing colours, inside which, on a window/screen there alternate visual evocations of waves, sunsets over the sea, moving mannequins, a house in the hills. English text.