text on the dress cover:

Georgian Dress
'catch a lizard and rub your glasses by its blood.
If you look through these glasses all the people will look naked'

Georgian child superstition

We - the cutters - stood with metallic scissors in hands over an electronic body of our reminiscence. You can't come into the foreign culture. You can't catch a lizard - you get only its skin. We are not creators, we are witnesses, owners of 500 of blurred prints of a fragile material scattered in our hands into scales. This dress is a lizard skin. It has a simple shape, not haute couture. There is a possibility for communication with the culture you never seen. You can try the lizard skin.

Yasha Kazhdan, Xenia Peretrukhina



presented at Zverev Centre for contemporary arts
IN/OUT exhibition, 2002, curated by E.Kikodze