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The international group exhibition 鈥楥ommon Landscape / Greeting a Stranger鈥� presents works in various media of contemporary socially engaged artists from Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Taiwan and Ukraine.  The exhibition outlines a society living on a geopolitical fault line and trying to find the keys, the common ground on which we can build a more just future. Keeping the issues of decolonization and deimperialisation in focus, the artists鈥� works rethink existing political and ideological constraints, geopolitical fractures, and fragmentation. 鈥楥ommon Landscape鈥� seeks to build bridges across diverse individual experiences and different contexts based on trust and solidarity. The exhibition asks how to represent a field where knowledge is only being created.

The exhibition Common Landscape / Greeting a Stranger is an artistic response to the events of recent years and their tangible consequences, which highlight the ineffectiveness of previous global conventions, significant geopolitical shifts and fractures, the fragmentation of democratic communities, and the willingness of certain countries to reshape the world order in favor of authoritarian regimes. Over the past four years, we have witnessed a series of critical developments: the migration crisis on the EU鈥檚 eastern border, which peaked in late 2021; the violent suppression of protests in Kazakhstan in early 2022; Russia鈥檚 full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the third Karabakh war in September 2023 and the subsequent reintegration of Karabakh into Azerbaijan; large-scale Chinese military exercises simulating the encirclement and complete blockade of Taiwan, the most recent of which took place in October 2024; and the erosion of political freedoms in Georgia, accompanied by mass protests that have been ongoing since March 2023, reaching a peak in December 2024. Additionally, we have seen the rise of right-wing populist movements and their ascent to power in parts of Europe and the United States.

Globalization brings both challenges鈥攎anifesting as various global crises鈥攁nd opportunities, particularly in fostering a deeper understanding of the modern world鈥檚 interconnectedness. The ongoing struggles for freedom and independence in Georgia and Taiwan, and especially the war and the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people, have compelled many countries to rethink their national and international priorities, more clearly define their paths of development, and reassess the significance of protecting freedom and justice.