ViZ / Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze

ViZ, Laboratory for Visual Culture presents The Invisible Hand of my Father (2018) by Georgian artist Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze.

Gagoshidze’s video installation combines 3D animation, drone panoramas, photographic documentation and oral testimony to tell the story of his father, a car industry manager who migrated from Georgia to Portugal to become construction worker when the 2008 financial crisis started to tarnish the global economy. A labor accident took his hand and left him with a prosthetic arm which he avoids to use due to its weak performance. Gagoshidze’s multilayered storytelling improvises on the relation between the ghostly role of the “invisible hand of economy” and the material specificity of the severed limb. A digital reconstruction of the father’s arm floats in the angelic space of capitalist economy while the faulty prosthetic becomes the father’s weird robotic friend, communicating through purposeless spasms.
Opening: 20:00, 6 November 2019
@ ViZ until 30 November 2019
Visiting hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 17:00 – 21:00, Saturday 12:00 – 16:00