Editor's note

This time Danarti went to its origins, it plays a role of an alterna- tive to an exhibition catalogue, following Waving - a two-person show I put together at Patara Gallery, a small project space in an underpass of Tbilisi, Georgia.

The exhibition, as well the issue, presents works by UK based art- ists, Sarah Boulton and Ulijona Odišarija.

The issue is interdisciplinary not through inviting scholars of vari- ous fields, but through inviting the artists that were in the exhibi- tion, although here with works of a different discipline.This issue, may be called a Poetry Issue.

Danarti, as its original meaning in Georgian suggests, ‘comes enclosed with’ the exhibition. It plays the role of ‘an additional document’ to the show, suggesting an additional perspective to read the work, provoke new questions.

What concerns the exhibition,with the absence of a press release we intended to avoid providing the viewer with any sort of a di- rective but the works, their dialogue and the context.
In the end, it was absence that the show was ‘about’, or rather the presence embedded within absence. It also spoke about dis- tance and the possibilities for distant relationships, that require no physical presence. But the manifestation of such presence is ephemeral.

Certainly, our thanks got out to those who helped us to install the exhibition, as none of us where physically there. These are the founders of the gallery and our assistant Natalia, who even though there was a very little salary, was always present. She also became a part of a performance, while she carried a sound piece in her pocket during the opening night.

I hope that through this issue, the Tbilisi audience, as well as, those who weren’t present, have an understanding and their own vision of what it was and might have been seen at the exhibition.

Elene Abashidze