Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

Back Wall Project

September 17, 2022 – August 6, 2023

Kunsthalle Basel

https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en/exhibition/ketuta_alexi-meskhishvili/

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Verkleidung, Kunsthalle Basel back wall, 2022. Installation view: Dog Smile, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
All works courtesy the artist; galerie frank elbaz, Paris; and LC Queisser, Tbilisi

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (*1979) presents an ensemble of large-scale, quasi-abstract, almost diaphanous photographic images specifically developed for the outdoor context of the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. The images are, as with so much of the Georgian-born artist’s practice, a mix of straight photographs, composite images created by superimposing photographic negatives, and explosions of chroma produced in darkroom processes. Here her images are printed on a PVC mesh often used to conceal building scaffolding. They expand the artist’s persistent interest in looking, deftly, at the minutia of everyday life as it is captured and shot through with transparency and light.


Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Verkleidung, Kunsthalle Basel back wall, 2022. Installation view: Dog Smile, 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
All works courtesy the artist; galerie frank elbaz, Paris; and LC Queisser, Tbilisi