Bay in the market
Digital image series and a poem, 2020.
Digital file, 3840 x 2160 px.
Ana Gzirishvili’s digital image series and a poem, Bay in the market, features Bay, a character she created, strolling around the Navtlughi bazaar in Tbilisi. This CGI character is part of Ana’s ongoing research into the interplay between immaterial and physical spaces and objects, and their mutual influence.
Bay does not have hands. At first glance, she appears completely helpless and vulnerable as she wanders through various places and digital clouds. In this work, Bay crafts a narrative that merges themes of markets, transitionality, and vulnerability.
The series explores the experience of sensing an environment without hands or traditional physical attributes. Different levels of consciousness are at play as Bay navigates the market. The project delves into how much of this experience is genuinely felt, perceived, or assumed, due to the peculiar third-level existence that acts as a connective tissue—a chimera formed from the in-between space. This nexus substance hints at both the known and the unknown, further emphasized by the absence or presence of relatable matter.
