Sophio Medoidze was born in Tbilisi in 1978. She now lives and works in London. She uses film, photography and writing to, in her own words, “explore the poetic potential of uncertainty”. Bastard Sun is marked by the duality of exile. It combines photographs taken in the 1990s by a first-generation woman growing up in post-Soviet Georgia with short texts written in recent years, after the artist settled in England, when travelling back to her country.
For those unfamiliar with the language, the rounded shapes of the Georgian alphabet used for the transcription give the work an ornamental beauty. This contrasts with the starkness of the photographs, which resemble mental images or scenes seen in passing. The color and graphic design of the cover are reminiscent of the Flower Power hippie books published in California in the 1970s. In the contemporary photobook landscape, Bastard Sun is a much-needed and unusual book.
Softcover
20x 30cm
Texts in English and Georgian
