MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness

September 10–December 21, 2025

MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness brings together a trilogy of films by artist Andro Eradze (b. 1993, Tbilisi, Georgia; lives and works in Tbilisi). Eradze’s mesmerizing films draw from surrealism and magic realism to dissolve distinctions between the real and imagined, alive and inanimate, domestic and wild.

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Installation view: MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 10–December 21, 2025.
Installation view: MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 10–December 21, 2025.
Installation view: MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 10–December 21, 2025.

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Sunday, February 8, 1 PM
Light Catcher Workshop

Join Tara Baghdassarian for a workshop where photography and light meet ancestral memory. Create magical glass dream catchers inspired by MATRIX exhibition artist Andro Eradze’s surreal, dreamlike world.

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Thursday, September 11, 7 PM
Artist’s Conversation: Andro Eradze

Georgian artist Andro Eradze talks with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton about his mesmerising film work featuring animals, plants, and other nonhuman subjects, which reveals the interconnectedness among all things.

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MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness

September 10–December 21, 2025

Andro Eradze (b. 1993, Tbilisi, Georgia; lives and works in Tbilisi) creates mesmerizing films, photographs, and installations that draw from surrealism and magic realism to dissolve distinctions between the real and imagined, alive and inanimate, domestic and wild. In his work, animals, plants, and other nonhuman subjects are often in tension with a looming human presence, as they navigate the vestiges of attempts to tame or conform them. In focusing his lens on the space between the organic and the synthetic, Eradze reveals an interconnectedness between all things.

MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness brings together three works that form a trilogy for the first time: All Hands Bury the Dead (2020), Raised in the Dust (2022), and Eradze’s newest film, Flowering and Fading (2024). All three works are connected by the presence of unseen forces, which shift and intensify throughout the films as the wind takes on a life of its own, fireworks emit strobing light, and objects rise weightlessly to cast a choreography of shadows. Situating viewers within an otherworldly landscape of entangled perceptions, Eradze blurs the boundaries not only between the real and imagined, but also between the perspectives of those at all angles to the lens.

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MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness is curated by Margot Norton, Chief Curator.

The exhibition is part of BAMPFA’s ongoing MATRIX series of contemporary art exhibitions. Founded in 1978, MATRIX provides artists with an experimental platform to make and show new work.

The MATRIX program is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis.

MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness

MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting Stillness

September 10–December 21, 2025

Past Events

Light Catcher Workshop

Artist’s Conversation: Andro Eradze

Past Films