Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili’s photographs combine digital, analog, snapshot, and staged photographic techniques. Through these combinations, she builds a visual language wherein technical decisions become symbolic, describing cultural conditions of photographic production, representation, and circulation. By layering, redacting, and staging the content and form of her images, Alexi-Meskhishvili creates carefully orchestrated images that read more as scenes, full of meaning and time, than as moments. Mysterious and cryptic, Alexi-Meskhishvili’s scenes are abstract. By working heavily with ambiance and mood, she leaves us with a strong feeling, almost a nostalgia for or memory of an event or history.
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (b.1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Berlin. Alexi-Meskhishvili received her BFA in Photography from Bard College, Annandale, New York in 2003. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Frank Elbaz, Paris (2019); Andrea Rosen, New York (2016); Micky Schubert, Berlin (2016); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2015) and Ancient & Modern (now Bruce Haines), London (2012). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2019); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2019); Karma, NY (2019); Kunst Haus Wien (2018); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2018); Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (2018); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2018); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover (2017); James Fuentes Gallery, New York (2017); Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2016); Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2015); Casey Kaplan, New York (2015); Mary Mary, Glasgow (2015); New Museum Triennial (2015) and Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2013).