The Ritual and Its Double

Join us for an afternoon with artist and filmmaker Sophio Medoidze, presented alongside the online exhibition of ‘Let Us Flow ვიდინოთ’.

The event includes a short reading from her bilingual monograph Bastard Sun, interwoven with a screening of short or excerpted films that offer a glimpse into her wider moving image practice.

The programme will be followed by a conversation between Sophio and artist Morgan Quaintance about Sophio’s writing and moving image practice. The conversation will reflect on the broader concerns that inform their approaches to filmmaking and storytelling, and offer a chance to hear both artists speak about the ideas that shape their work.

Online Exhibition: Sophio Medoidze: Let Us Flow ვიდინოთ continues until 22 January 2026.

Sophio Medoidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia) is a London-based artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, performance, and writing.

Her work has been shown internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CAC Centre d’art Contemporain, LUX, London, and the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. She was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Visual Arts at the British School at Rome (2024–2025).

Her practice—shaped by experiences of post-Soviet migration—is situated between Georgia and the Georgian diaspora in the UK. Working through poetic structures and long-term collaborative projects, such as Let Us Flow (2023), her first feature made with nomadic Tushetian communities in Georgia, she examines how language, memory, and belonging shift under conditions of displacement and late capitalism.

In the early 2000s, Medoidze founded and led the artist collective Clara Emigrand, staging performative interventions across London. Active in publishing and experimental writing, she is the author of Bastard Sun (DISTANZ / Kona, 2023), a bilingual monograph that interweaves photography and text to reflect on personal and political change.

Morgan Quaintance is an artist and writer from London. His practice remains responsive to contemporary experience and so largely eschews the rehearsal of set themes. However, interests in the human condition, the cultic milieu, counterculture, ethnography, the built environment, Afro-Caribbean, African American, East Asian and British histories are all mainstays. Quaintance's films are distributed by LUX, London.