Edzgveradze makes ironic yet powerful installations out of plants, vegetables, everyday objects and graphic, often carica¬turistic paintings of black lines on white background. The humour of these installations comes from the formal associations and the unusual recontextualisaton of the objects. The diverse objects and media always constitute a unified, coherent artwork. This painting was on display at the exhibition Ultramodern Nihilism in 1998 at the Ludwig Museum, as part of an installation of 30 paintings. Entitled The Hare Disturbed by Mosquitoes, this painting is rather ironic, as the rabbit in the image is obviously not alive, and therefore cannot be disturbed by the mosquitoes. They may, however, disturb the spectator, as the dead hare is a recurrent motif of Dutch still lifes, reminding contemporaneous art aficionados of the transience of life in this world. However, the sublime philosophizing is disturbed by the mosquitoes serving as Brechtian alienation effect, dragging the spectator back to everyday reality, much like the Happy Flies Kissing Beautiful Face.