In light of the fact that Georgia no longer has a silk industry, researching and studying the country‘s sericultural past is of great significance. Thanks to the efforts and support of the Goethe-Zentrum Baku and our team at Dineba, the Museum was able to digitize its important collection of glass negatives and the archival material for the exhibition Casting an Echo: Architecture of Sericulture. Never-before-seen photographs constitute a precious resource through which to explore cultural, economic and social references related to Silk production in the South Caucasus.
The exhibition was organized at Goethe Institute, Georgia, in collaboration with the State Silk Museum from 19 November 2021 to 19 February, 2022.
The exhibition display developed for Casting an Echo: Architecture of Sericulture has been organized to allow various sections of the show to be rearranged onsite, making space for new assessments, thus questioning how physical engagements with the archives can interrogate, subvert, or open up the material to new forms of association.
Archives courtesy of the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi History Museum, Photography-phono-video collection of the Georgian National Museum.
Images:
Photographs from the archive of the State Silk Museum’s glass plate negatives collection, focusing on the architecture of production.
Historical images of the buidlings which were part of the Caucasian Sericulture Station.
Entomological album, with photographs from the digitized collection of the State Silk Museum’s glass plate negatives collection.
Olaf Nicolai, a spindleful / here / again (2021). Posters composed with visual material from the State Silk Museums glass plate negatives collection and poetry by M. Abashidze, K. Gamsakhurdia, N. Nakashidze, I. Gogebashvili, I. Chavchavadze, S. Shanshiashvili and J. Mekhrishvili
Concept: Nina Akhvlediani and Olaf Nicolai
Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Photographs: Giovanna Silva
Exhibition design and display concept: Nina Akhvlediani
Exhibition design: Helmut Völter in collaboration with Nina Akhvlediani and Olaf Nicolai
Posters: Olaf Nicolai in collaboration with Helmut Völter
Production exhibition displays: Rati Eradze
Curator’s assistant: Mariam Kuprashvili
Research consultants: Nino Tchachkhiani and Salome Pachuashvili
Archiving of the glass plate negatives collection: Salome Pachuashvili and Tamar Kalkhitashvili
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In light of the fact that Georgia no longer has a silk industry, researching and studying the country‘s sericultural past is of great significance. Thanks to the efforts and support of the Goethe-Zentrum Baku and our team at Dineba, the Museum was able to digitize its important collection of glass negatives and the archival material for the exhibition Casting an Echo: Architecture of Sericulture. Never-before-seen photographs constitute a precious resource through which to explore cultural, economic and social references related to Silk production in the South Caucasus.
The exhibition was organized at Goethe Institute, Georgia, in collaboration with the State Silk Museum from 19 November 2021 to 19 February, 2022.
The exhibition display developed for Casting an Echo: Architecture of Sericulture has been organized to allow various sections of the show to be rearranged onsite, making space for new assessments, thus questioning how physical engagements with the archives can interrogate, subvert, or open up the material to new forms of association.
Archives courtesy of the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi History Museum, Photography-phono-video collection of the Georgian National Museum.
Images:
Photographs from the archive of the State Silk Museum’s glass plate negatives collection, focusing on the architecture of production.
Historical images of the buidlings which were part of the Caucasian Sericulture Station.
Entomological album, with photographs from the digitized collection of the State Silk Museum’s glass plate negatives collection.
Olaf Nicolai, a spindleful / here / again (2021). Posters composed with visual material from the State Silk Museums glass plate negatives collection and poetry by M. Abashidze, K. Gamsakhurdia, N. Nakashidze, I. Gogebashvili, I. Chavchavadze, S. Shanshiashvili and J. Mekhrishvili
Concept: Nina Akhvlediani and Olaf Nicolai
Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Photographs: Giovanna Silva
Exhibition design and display concept: Nina Akhvlediani
Exhibition design: Helmut Völter in collaboration with Nina Akhvlediani and Olaf Nicolai
Posters: Olaf Nicolai in collaboration with Helmut Völter
Production exhibition displays: Rati Eradze
Curator’s assistant: Mariam Kuprashvili
Research consultants: Nino Tchachkhiani and Salome Pachuashvili
Archiving of the glass plate negatives collection: Salome Pachuashvili and Tamar Kalkhitashvili
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