Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Sophia Al Maria |Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili |Negar Azimi |Anna Della Subin |Antonia Carver |Yasmine El Rashidi | +9 more

Lisa Farjam Bidoun was really born out of a reaction to 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Islamophobia and sensationalist Western media coverage of the Middle East. In the arts specifically, media coverage of the region was always quite superficial. I was interested in building bridges between cities like Cairo and Beirut, and working with the communities of writers and artists who lived there. Initially, Bidoun grew out of conversations between myself and my closest friend, Sunny Rahbar.

May 29, 2023 | flash---art.com | Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

“We are tragic sleepers,” texts Miciah sometime in October. He and I happen to be birthday twins, as were our mothers. But more than that, we are insomniac doppelgangers. Some time ago he curated a show at Bridget Donahue gallery titled “On Empathy.” The New Yorker’s review of the exhibition said that in a time when we seem to lament irony and detachment, Miciah “makes sincerity cool again.”Although this was a few years back, sincerity has been on my mind a lot lately.