Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (*1979, Tbilisi) is a Georgian-American photographer living in Berlin. Where a photograph is classically understood to freeze a moment in time, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili’s work undoes such claims of fixity, positing the medium instead as a process of developing and revealing. Typically staging her compositions in the window of her studio or directly on the surface of a negative film emulsion in a “camera-less” method, she melds experimental analogue techniques and digital scanning to make images in which the residual details of this deliberately precarious production shape their subject matter. Homing in on porous boundaries between life and art Alexi-Meskhishvili melds the grotesque, beautiful, abject, feminine, uncanny in ambivalent cohesion.
Her recent solo exhibitions include the backwall at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2023), Helena Anrather (2023), Flush, Galerie Molitor (2022), LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2022) galerie frank elbaz (2022), and Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Eglise des Frères Prêcheurs (2021). Selected group exhibitions include Bonner Kunstverein (2023), Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2021), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2019), and Kunst Haus Wien (2018).
