Untitled (Braids)
The works of Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili stand at the confluence between digital and analogue photography, images that are either straight snapshots or staged in a studio, involving different supports and alteration methods. The combination of these processes expresses an experimental and intuitive research into the unstable boundaries between things, playing on the diversity of media, materials and scales. Untitled (Braids) reveals this search for “existential abstraction” between presence and absence, concealing and revealing. Here, leaving an image impressed onto paper and fabric can refer both to the mechanism inherent to photography and to the subjective and ephemeral traces of an emotion. The braids which hang in the centre of the composition –alluding to a traditional Georgian hairstyle– emerge as a key element of a mysterious presence.
© ADAGP, Paris 2016