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Caucasian History Lesson is a solo exhibition by Lado Darakhvelidze. P–OST invited Darakhvelidze to extend his project Caucasian History Lesson and add a new body of work and new dimensions to it. His previous projects The Caucasian History Lessons and Discourse Traveler study the ways in which history is taught in schools. They focus on how the “official stories” are undone when they are juxtaposed to each other, at which point all their ideological functions begin to break down and become undone.

In his new work, the artist develops a new technique of investigating history by using different material and a different approach. In addition to chalkboard drawings of previous parts of Causasian History Lesson, Darakhvelidze is now using cardboard cutouts to merge portraits of different historical figures, such as Ivan the Terrible and Dimitri Medvedev. The cardboard cut-outs are presented alongside quilted curtains displaying different topological figures; shapes that are preserved under continuous deformation. With this new approach Darakhvelidze aims to describe and expose different paradigms that are acting out in history.

Platform P–OST is closed in August due to the summerholiday. On the first of September we are open again.