SOPHIO MEDOIDZE
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Sophio Medoidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia) is a London-based artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, performance, and text. A first-generation migrant to the UK after the collapse of the Soviet Union, her practice explores the poetic potential of uncertainty, engaging with themes of dislocation, migration, and the malleability of language through fragmentation, repetition, and rupture. Over the past two decades, her experimental moving image works and writing have been shown at museums, galleries, and international film festivals to critical acclaim. Her debut feature, Let Us Flow (2023), made with Tushetian communities over five years, explores migration and the effects of late capitalism in the remote Greater Caucasus and was highlighted by Sight & Sound for its “unpredictable visual texture and mesmeric aesthetic.”

Alongside filmmaking, Medoidze is engaged in experimental writing and independent publishing. Her bilingual monograph, Bastard Sun (Distanz / Kona, 2023), brings together photographs made in post-Soviet Georgia during the 1990s with recent texts written after her move to England, reflecting on memory, exile, and belonging. The book was recognised by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and selected as Book of the Month in May 2024.

Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally at institutions including Tate Modern (London), MoMA (online), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Royal Academy of Arts (London), LUX (London), Serpentine Cinema Serpentine Galleries (London), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Cafe OTO (London), Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles), CLOSE-UP (London), CAC Centre d'art Contemporain (Brétigny-sur-Orge), Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), Pavilion (Leeds), LC Queisser (Tbilisi), Outpost Gallery (Norwich), Le Cyclop (Milly-la-Forêt), IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Institut Français (London), Maison de la Culture (Amiens) and Paris Internationale (Paris).
She has participated in international film festivals, including Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), BFMAF Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (Berwick), Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (The Hague), Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), Intersección (A Coruña), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi), and Courtisane Festival (Ghent). Recent performances have been presented at Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Café OTO (London), Biblioteka at AA Architects (London), and LUX (London).

She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome (2024–2025), Book of the Month at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2024), the Arts Council England Project Grant (2022), The Elephant Trust Grant (2022), Georgian National Film Centre Documentary Funding (2022), and the Tyneside Cinema Projections Commission (2018).

She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Artist at Conditions, Croydon.

Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
For distribution contact: distribution@lux.org.uk

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Studio portrait, Rome, 2025