With the support of the Equality Movement, visual artist Davit Apakidze, the founder of Fungus, implemented the project Gilded Fleece. The project premiered at the exhibition Anti-Mode within the framework of the Days of Art and Fashion in Ukraine.
Gilded Fleece symbolizes the non-binary character of Colchian culture, which is a metaphor for the author’s politicized body. Gilded Fleece narrates the story of current social or political developments in modern Georgian culture that affect LGBT people. It is important for the author to draw public attention to LGBT issues with the use of various mediums.
According to Davit Apakidze, the Gilded Fleece is a body that has magical and political power. The body that is manipulated, the body that is the source of the country’s prosperity. It is a lifeless body that is poisonous, not belonging to the soul inhabiting it. The Gilded Fleece is a public, though unacceptable for the public.
“Colchian culture is a symbol of a patriarchal culture to which a queer person never fully belongs. His body does not exist within this culture because he can not be placed in the binary reality. The body I have chosen as a protagonist is a lifeless body, a body that is manipulated. The queer body is politicized in our society, whether we like it or not. Often, queer bodies become tools of political games by which one or another political forces manipulate. They destroy the psyche of queer people as if it is for their benefit. As a result of these dirty games, the queer person abandons the society. That’s why the protagonist is embedded in a useless body. He hides his identity behind this allegorical body, because he is afraid of the appearance of his body,” – says Davit Apakidze.
ვებ-გვერდი შექმნილია RFSU-ს ფინანსური მხარდაჭერით.
სიდა, შვედეთის განვითარების სააგენტო, მთლიანად ან ნაწილობრივ აფინანსებს ამ მასალას.
