A green laser turns inside a disused circular reservoir in Tbilisi. Its sweep picks out the basin’s concrete walls, rubble and graffiti, while changes of speed disturb its radar-like rhythm. Peter Vink adds a motorised mechanism to the existing site, leaving its accumulated debris in place. The former industrial infrastructure becomes a system that appears to keep searching after its original purpose has disappeared.
Location: Open Space | Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, 2026. Video published by the artist on October 7, 2026.
Artist: Peter Vink is a conceptual artist working between Amsterdam and Berlin. Educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he makes site-specific installations and objects that bring the histories and material traces of a place into view.
Sources: Peter Vink; biography; original video.