Ora et lege III: Saïat Nova – New Hour
Bílá Hora Monastery•Aug 31, 2025 — Sep 30, 2025
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The exhibition Saïat Nova – New Hour, held at the Baroque complex of the Benedictine Bílá Hora Monastery in Prague, is structured around the ideas of polyphony, transliteration, and the coexistence of multiple cultures, spaces and times, drawing inspiration from the legacy of an 18th-century poet, Saïat Nova (c. 1722–1801), a court ashugh (minstrel) of King Erekle II of Georgia. The biography of this Tbilisi-based poet is known through a complex mix of inconsistent historical records and persistent legend. His innovation as a poet, however, is undisputed. His adopted name itself signals his approach: a combination of Saïat – a word with probable Arabic roots that means “hour” in Georgian – and the Latin Nova, meaning “new”. A poet of the new times, Saïat Nova composed in multiple languages at once: Georgian, Armenian, Persian, and Azerbaijani. He pioneered a distinct visual and sonic method,...More
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Ora et lege III: Saïat Nova – New Hour
Bílá Hora Monastery•Aug 31, 2025 — Sep 30, 2025
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The exhibition Saïat Nova – New Hour, held at the Baroque complex of the Benedictine Bílá Hora Monastery in Prague, is structured around the ideas of polyphony, transliteration, and the coexistence of multiple cultures, spaces and times, drawing inspiration from the legacy of an 18th-century poet, Saïat Nova (c. 1722–1801), a court ashugh (minstrel) of King Erekle II of Georgia. The biography of this Tbilisi-based poet is known through a complex mix of inconsistent historical records and persistent legend. His innovation as a poet, however, is undisputed. His adopted name itself signals his approach: a combination of Saïat – a word with probable Arabic roots that means “hour” in Georgian – and the Latin Nova, meaning “new”. A poet of the new times, Saïat Nova composed in multiple languages at once: Georgian, Armenian, Persian, and Azerbaijani. He pioneered a distinct visual and sonic method,...More
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