Galeria Wschód is thrilled to present a sound and video performance by Georgian artist Keta Gavasheli titled Blurry Middle Distance | ბუნდოვანი შუა მანძილი on Saturday, September 20, 5 pm at The Black Box Warsaw.
The performance Blurry Middle Distance | ბუნდოვანი შუა მანძილი unfolds artist and sound performer Keta Gavasheli’s most recent filmic work shot in Tbilisi, Düsseldorf and New York. Drawing from neuroscience as well as poetry, Gavasheli explores the role of memory in molding our perceptions of the present. Amidst growing political tensions in her homeland Georgia, the artist addresses through the camera lens notions of alienation, loss, but also collectiveness, in an attempt at reconnecting with a landscape scarred with urban and social transformations. Incorporating text and spoken word, her multimedia work traces analogies across language, body and space, using the recurring image of the hole as a point of departure from which personal and collective stories emerge.
Anchored in a co-creative process, her live performance involves sonic contributions by peer artists and friends Zurab Babunashvili, binbadweather, DECHA, John T. Gast, Yvette Georges, MINALOY, and Sandro Tediashvili, fostering a plural and dialectical approach to artmaking.
Text by Isabelle Tondre
Keta Gavasheli (b. 1990, Tbilisi, Georgia) works and lives in Düsseldorf. Selected solo exhibitions include Salon Roberta, Cologne (2025); Galeria Wschód New York,(2025); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2024); Duo Show with Andria Dolidze, Linn Lühn Gallery, Düsseldorf (2024); Rusty Tears, Münster (2022). Her work and screenings have been included at Kunstverien Siegen, Germany, (2025); Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne (2024); Lantz’scher Park, Düsseldorf (2024); Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (2024); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2024); 4710 Gallery, Tbilisi (2023); G10 Projektraum, Darmstadt (2023); Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2023) Empty Spaces E.V III, Düsseldorf (2023); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2023); Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster(2022); Arcadia, Düsseldorf (2021); 4710 Gallery, Tbilisi (2021); Empty Spaces E.V II, Düsseldorf (2021); Empty Spaces E.V II, Düsseldorf (2020). She has delivered Performances at Kunsthalle Münster (2025), Küstsammlung NRW/K21, Düsseldorf; Lantz’scher Park, Düsseldorf (2024); Artothek Cologne (2023), Kunstverien für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2022); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande, Düsseldorf (2021).
