Sophio Medoidze (born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is an artist and filmmaker currently based in London.
Her practice encompasses film, photography, sculpture and installation and explores the poetic potential of uncertainty. Her films are known for their experimental nature, subverting traditional narrative forms and merging the personal with the mythopoetic. Over the past five years, she has been working with the nomadic Tushetian community in the Caucasus Mountains on her first feature film, ‘Let Us Flow’(2023).
Medoidze has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo presentations at Tate Modern (UK),Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Beursschouwburg (BE), LUX London (UK),Outpost Gallery and Serpentine Cinema, Serpentine Galleries (UK). Selected group exhibitions and screenings include Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles (FR), LC Queisser (GE), CAC Brétigny (FR), Short Film Festival Oberhausen (GER), IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art (IE), Ciné Lumière, Institut Français (UK), CLOSE-UP (UK), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Kunstmuseum Luzern (CHE), EMAF European Media Art Festival (GER), Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (UK).
She is the recipient of the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome (2024-2025).
Writing is a significant aspect of her practice, threading the line between fiction and reality, as well as utopia and dystopia. In the early 2000s, the artist worked anonymously as part of the fictional collective Clara Emigrand, examining political conflict through a feminist lens and disseminating her work outside the gallery context. Her first monograph ‘Bastard Sun’ was published by Distanz and Kona Books.
Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
