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
In untitled (still not over you) various work lighting typologies, collected mainly from defunct offices in Athens, are orchestrated and reinstalled - their lifetime remaining, unknown, in exhibitions. Neither fully operative nor entirely exhausted, they are ready mades, objets - trouvés, serial, ordinary objects, in a peculiar state of functional latency. Their upcoming exhaustion is concisely and provocatively, elongated during repeated installations. They become a landscape of metabolic activity - of an amount of light that enters a room, of an amount of energy that leaves a room, of a certain amount of intention, the minimum amount of meaningful gesture. They are physical traces of a desire, or an impulse, glimpses of locations and surroundings. They provide evidence of personal and material limitations. They are also records of affect, meditations, manifestos, emotional contours of life during increasingly precarious times. They are essays on forces, and on resistance.
Presented by IMPORT EXPORT
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.
Presented by ILENIA
IRIS TOULIATOU
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.
KETUTA ALEXI-MSKHISHVILI
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).
