LC Queisser is pleased to present works by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili. Alexi-Meskhishvili's photographs combine digital, analog, snapshot, and staged photographic techniques. Through these combinations, she builds a visual language wherein technical decisions become symbolic, describing cultural conditions of photographic production, representation, and circulation. By layering, redacting, and staging the content and form of her images, Alexi-Meskhishvili creates carefully orchestrated images that read more as scenes, full of meaning and time, than as moments. Mysterious and cryptic, Alexi-Meskhishvili's scenes are abstract. By working heavily with ambiance and mood, she leaves us with a strong feeling, almost a nostalgia for or memory of an event or history.

Central in the image is a vintage Soviet-era publication in Georgian of James Joyce's Dubliners. The typography on the cover speaks of the culture for type design that existed at that time. This culture was devasted after perestroika, the political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s associated with Mikhail Gorbachev. The cover of the book is reflected and distorted in the right-hand half of the image. The references to translation, what is communicated and the forgotten in-between spaces, are manifold in the image; there is the translated text, the distorted mirroring of the cover, the translation that takes place in the photography of a moment into an image. Alongside the repeating reflections of translation, the image contains a strong sense of history. The typography and publication refer to a specific moment in time, at the same time that the book itself has aged, being passed through many hands, homes, and readers.