Djordjadze's installations are concentrated procedures of spatial investigation. The probing of actual conditions, the arranging and setting up of the works ushers them from the studio into the exhibition space. The visitor is confronted with an architecture which imbues the works assembled by the artist with the appeal of archaeological artifacts. Here abstraction requires a visual sensitivity for nuance. There arise elements and situations which link the detail to the whole. The material which she utilizes seems to give quiet assent to its transformation; it speaks through the form imparted to it and thereby becomes text.

Thea Djordjadze has entitled her exhibition ‘Explain away, ე.ი.'. The title implies making excuses, hedging at something: This is the reproach of a supposed objectivity, and with respect to it a hopeless undertaking. The Georgian letters ‘ე.ი.' may be translated as ‘i.e.’. They announce an explanation and refer to another linguistic space. The open position points towards the poetic field where the other can achieve its impact. Djordjadze's exhibition titles, in spite of their apparently enigmatic quality, are precise enticements of the viewer, invitations to a social game which takes place beyond language.