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Exhibition by artists from Georgia at Lunds konsthall is certain to have a political dimension

LUND.- An exhibition with artists from Georgia will inevitably have a political dimension. To a Western audience, Georgia is sufficiently unknown to provoke curiosity, but at the same time sufficiently known to be representable, imaginable. Georgia is associated with geopolitics on a grand scale: the Great Game that followed the collapse of the USSR twenty years ago. The short war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008 was just the best-publicised event in a continuous development that involves oil and hegemony, values and ambitions, Eurasia, the Middle East, the US and the EU. Yet an exhibition should not be a narrative that sticks to one topic, even if it is as complex as Georgia’s recent history. An exhibition should always be multi-dimensional. The word ‘dimension’ is to do with measuring. It is related to ‘metre’, ‘moon’ (the celestial body that helps us measure time) and ‘month’ (the time unit measured out by the moon). Yet it is not a precise technical term. Instead it