Sophio Medoidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia) is a London-based artist and filmmaker whose work explores the boundary between the radical-local and the global, often using her native Georgia both as a setting and a lens. Her recent Tusheti Trilogy emerged from five years of deep engagement with the nomadic Tushetian community—a collaboration grounded in presence, patience, and mutual respect. Themes of collective ritual and memory, geographic and linguistic displacement, and rural late capitalism run throughout Medoidze’s filmography.

She graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2016, and an MA in Fine Art Photography from the London College of Communication in 2005.

Over the past fifteen years, her moving image work has been recognised for its experimental form and immersive quality, and has been widely screened and exhibited at galleries and museums including Tate Modern (London), MoMA (online), LUX (London), Serpentine Cinema (London), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Cafe OTO (London), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Maison de la Culture (Amiens), CLOSE-UP (London), Centre d'art Contemporain (Brétigny-sur-Orge), Pavilion (Leeds), LC Queisser (Tbilisi), Institut Français (London), Outpost Gallery (Norwich), Le Cyclop (Milly-la-Forêt), IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Arles), Paris Internationale (Paris); International film festivals including Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), Interseccion (A Coruña), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi), EMAF European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (Berwick), Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (Den Haag), Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), Courtisane Festival (Ghent).

She was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British school at Rome (2024-2025), the Book of the Month at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2024), the Arts Council England Project Grant (2022), Georgian National Film Centre Documentary funding (2022).

Medoidze’s filmmaking practice also extends into writing and publishing as alternative forms of image-making. Her recent performances and readings have been presented at Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Café OTO (London), Biblioteka, AA Architects (London), and LUX (London). Her first monograph, Bastard Sun, was published by Distanz and Kona Books (2023).

Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.

For distribution contact: distribution@lux.org.uk

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