Bastard Sun: Sophio Medoidze - Softcover

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Sophio Medoidze's (b. Tbilisi, then USSR, 1978; lives and works in London) practice encompasses film, photography, writing, andsculpture and explores the poetic potential of uncertainty. Her work has beenshown at Tate Modern, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the SerpentineGallery, the Close Up Film Centre, Kunstmuseum Luzern, and the Whitechapel Gallery,amongst others. For a time she worked anonymously as part of the Clara Emigrandcollective, disseminating her work outside the gallery context. Medoidzeexplores the relationship between rural and urban, languages and translations,as well as gender politics and dynamics. Her works often emerge from writingand unfold as installations incorporating moving image, sculpture, and text.

The publication Bastard Sun brings together a collection of photographs taken after the civil unrest in Georgia in the 1990swith short texts written over the subsequent visits to Georgia, together with acollection of twelve short stories. Medoidze's writing provides nuanced and attimes humorous reflections on personal and political change.

Bastard Sun is co-published with KONA BOOKS, a Tbilisi-based publishing house that focuses on contemporary visual andinterdisciplinary projects.

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