The image depicts a young woman with dark, wavy hair adorned with a vibrant red flower. Clad in a fanciful attire featuring a checkered pattern and polka dots, she maintains a pensive expression, conveying a sense of introspection. The overall composition and staging suggest the artwork may be a fashion or portrait photograph, highlighting the subject's striking visual style. The viewer is left to ponder the artist's intention in capturing this individual's unique aesthetic and emotional state, inviting further exploration of the work's deeper conceptual underpinnings. ...
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (born in 1979 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian-American photographer living in Berlin. She studied at Bard College, Annandale, NY under Stephen Shore, An My Lee and Barbara Ess. Her work stands at the confluence of digital and analog photography. Images she makes are straight snapshots or intricately staged photographs, which then undergo a process of altering by hand or digital means, or a mix of both. The multilayered manner in which she combines these interventions, while experimental and often intuitive, converges on a conceptual logic of choreographing and staging not just surfaces, but the conditions of photographic representation. ...
