Scarecrows Don’t Talk- Group show by Salome Jokhadze, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler and Rhona Mühlebach at Palazzina.

"Salome Jokhadze uses a fridge of Palazzina as her main stage: attaching porcelain magnets in the form of teeth to it. As with most of those magnets on fridges, they pretend to hold a note, a postcard or a photo, but in reality, they themselves are the souvenir. Before my inner eye I see fridges with Eiffel towers and Niagara Falls stuck to them, with Edelweiss and “I love Tokyo”. Now we have teeth, parts of our body that the artist associates with wisdom or the feeling of knowing – the world, things and what we are made up of. However, since all the artist’s wisdom teeth have grown and subsequently been taken out of her mouth, her tongue has gone numb and the doctors don’t know if her tongue will ever feel normal again.” Fragment from the exhibition text by Vera Mühlebach.

“On the embroidered fabric of My Teeth Bite Through Flesh multiple colourfully dressed characters are on the verge of retrieving a treasure. The treasure is a group of teeth. The characters ride on strong horses, and they wear long hair and hats that look more like being prepared for a traditional harvest ceremony than for the battlefield. The group seems to have developed other strategies for fighting, they’re not in line but spread out and still somehow together – raising their fists. And there is the broken snake, referring to a Georgian legend, according to which women know spells that freeze snakes if they happen to come across one while collecting vegetables in the field. We can feel it here, Georgia is always somehow present. Not in a nostalgic or meaning mediating way, but to manifest that this place exists – with all its implications and political trials and tribulations.”