Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: jevouspropose#17

The exhibition shows works by the artist Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili in juxtaposition with artist Jonas Mekas’ film “As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty” (2000).

Both – the contemporary artist Alexi-Meskhishvili and the filmmaker and artist Mekas, who died in 2019 – work with personal diaries: portable images and memories captured by the camera. These are daily
observations that change in meaning against the backdrop of historical incisions, political conflicts, protests and wars. The image of a flower is transformed from an image of the beauty of everyday life to a
symbol of resistance in protests. Everyday life and its surroundings are coined by their times and epochs and linger between their beauty and the reason and meaning in the course of history.

Curator: Christina Lehnert.