Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili
Quarantine Flowers, 2020-2022
€ 1,500
OrderKetuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (*1979 in Tbilisi) describes her approach to photography as a medium that runs through her entire artistic practice. She is interested not only in the photographic image itself, but also in the mechanisms that contribute to its creation. The artist, who grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, and emigrated with her family to New York as a teenager, works with both analog and digital techniques, reproducing images in small formats or allowing them to transform entire spaces. Her photographs range from translucent to opaque, their surfaces marked by scratches and manual interventions. These works reveal an interest in classical genres such as still life, while the artist also turns her attention to seemingly worthless everyday objects. Her images appear both documentary and personal. Despite this multifaceted staging of the medium, a persistent concern runs through all her work: the question of how—and to what extent—photography is able to represent reality.