IMPORT EXPORT & ILENIA are excited to present works by Iris Touliatou & Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili as part of "Constellations" gallery sharing initiative in Warsaw.
Verging on the notion of glitch, archival fever, and sentimentalism, the joint presentation brings together Touliatou's media and light installations with a selection of Alexi-Meskhishvili's photography-based works.
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (b. 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.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsverein Braunschweig (2025), Je Vous Propose, Zurich ( 2024), LC Quiesser (2024), 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 SculptureCenter (2024), Kunsthalle Baden Baden (2024), Bonner Kunstverein (2023), Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2021), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2019), and Kunst Haus Wien (2018).
Presented by ILENIA
Iris Touliatou (b. 1981, Athens) works across various disciplines which are necessary for each intervention. Examining infrastructures and function, attachment and desires, the public and private, Touliatou explores the relationships between social structures and people’s practices and raises questions on the conditions of artistic production and the institutional frames within which it exists. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.
She recently had solo exhibitions at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2024); Peer, London; fluent, Santander; and Kunsthalle Basel (all 2023), as well as at Grazer Kunstverein (2022). Her work has been included in the group exhibitions Key Operators, Kunstverein München, Munich (2024); Phenomenon 5, Anafi (2024); Intimate confession is a project, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston (2023); forms of the surrounding futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (2023); Siren (some poetics), Amant, NYC (2022); When I state I am an anarchist, PLATO, Ostrava (2022); the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, NYC (2021); the 7th Athens Biennial, Eclipse (2021); Anti Structure, DESTE Foundation (2021); The Same River Twice, Benaki Museum, Athens (2019); among others.
Presented by IMPORT EXPORT
Exhibition opens on Friday 11 April and will be on view until 24 May.
