Sophio Medoidze

Sophio Medoidze, born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia (then the USSR), is a visual artist whose practice explores the poetic potential of uncertainty. Working primarily with film, though also with photography, writing and installation, Medoidze is interested in subverting traditional narrative forms through imagination, relatedness and humour. 

Often shot in Georgia, Medoidze’s films are known for their use of innovative audio-visual techniques and experimentation, bashing sounds and images against each other to produce what the artist calls ‘affective fragmentation’. Writing, with its many intricacies and diversions, is an important part of her practice, threading the line between fiction and reality, but also utopia and dystopia.  In the early 2000s, the artist worked anonymously as part of the Clara Emigrand collective in London, disseminating her work outside the gallery context.

Medoidze has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including at Tate Modern (UK), Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles (FR), Serpentine Gallery (UK), the Close-Up Film Centre (UK), Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH), films festival Oberhausen and Whitechapel Gallery (UK). Her book ‘Bastard Sun’ was published by Distanz Verlag in 2023.

Sophio Medoidze lives and works in London.