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Allow is an exhibition of Georgian artist David Meskhi. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being. The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important - not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance.

This exhibition is part of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography in Berlin.

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Exhibited Works

Flowerhead, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Hair, 2009
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
72 x 100 cm | 28 3/8 x 39 3/8 in

Avant-garde 01, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
60 x 42,8 cm | 23 5/8 x 16 7/8 in

Diiv, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
120 x 85 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in

Dune, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Supernature 01 (Nonexistent Spot Nr. 15), 2018
Archival Pigment Print on Poyo Satin Gloss Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in
Ed.: 2/3 + 2 AP

Abstract Body 03, 2016
Papier Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in

Higher 02, 2019
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
62 x 100 cm | 24 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
Ed.:1/3 + 2AP

Gold of the light 04, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
57 x 80 cm | 22 1/2 x 31 1/2 in

When the earth seems to be light (2), 2007
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
28,5 x 40 cm | 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in

Miss Me At The Party, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
59 x 42 cm | 23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in

Starshaped, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Hang on there 01, 2023
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
100 x 72,5 cm | 39 3/8 x 28 1/2 in

Supernature 10, 2019
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Supernature 04, 2019
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Moon Safari, 2023
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
60 x 42,8 cm | 23 5/8 x 16 7/8 in

Hang on there 02, 2023
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Carry fire, 2021
Archival Pigment Print Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Newborn light, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Higher 18, 2023
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
28,5 x 40 cm | 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in

Marine moon, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
60 x 42,8 cm | 23 5/8 x 16 7/8 in

Diiv, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
120 x 85 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in

Where I end and you begin, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
28,5 x 40 cm | 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 in

Icon, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
80 x 57 cm | 31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in

Selfi, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
60 x 42,8 cm | 23 5/8 x 16 7/8 in

Carpet sunrise 17, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
40 x 28,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in

Grotta Azurra, 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Baryta Paper
80 x 57 cm | 31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in

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Press Highlights

Juxtapoz Magazine, March 2023

About the artist

David Meskhi

DAVID MESKHI

Born 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

David Meskhi focuses on movement in his artistic practice as a photographer. Coming from a dynasty of successful youth sport coaches, he grew up surrounded by sports events and competitions. In his last series he captured mostly athletes during their training, creating aesthetic compositions of men seemingly floating in air in a moment of weightlessness. His imagery is poetic, raises connotations of sexuality, belief and expresses a common urge of the youth to free itself from social boundaries.